ACT ONE of Dvorak's opera begins on the banks of a lake in the forest. Wood nymphs are teasing Vodnik, a water sprite. Rusalka, a water nymph, is one of Vodnik's daughters, and like her father and ...
Rusalka is a fish out of water tale. Literally. She is a water nymph who after falling in love with a human Prince she strikes a magical deal with a witch to become a woman, on the condition that she ...