Dvořák: Rusalka (Complete), Moon song / Remastered (Century's recording: Zdeněk Chalabala) - Video

Antonin Dvorák (1841-1904) Rusalka, Op. 114 by Zdeněk Chalabala / Remastered
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Rusalka Op. 114, B. 203
00:00 Overture
Act 1
04:02 Ho, ho, ho!
12:25 Watersprite, my father dear!
16:24 He comes here frequently
21:15 Moon song: O, moon high up in the deep sky
29:20 Your ancient wisdom knows everything
38:28 Abracadabra!
43:12 Here she appeared and again disappeared!
45:35 The hunt is over, return home at once
51:34 I know you’re but magic that will pass

Act 2
53:42 Well then, my dear boy
1:02:02 A week now do you dwell with me
1:11:39 Festive music, Ballet
1:16:47 No one in this world can give you
1:21:21 White blossoms all along the road
1:24:48 Rusalka, daughter, I am here!
1:31:03 Strange fire in your eyes is burning

Act 3
1:37:08 Isensible water power
1:44:30 Ah, ah! Already you have come back?
1:50:15 Uprooted and banished
1:54:33 That you’re afraid? Don’t be silly
1:01:10 Hair, golden hair have I
1:09:53 Where are you, my white doe?
1:14:32 Do you still know me, lover?

Rusalka, the Naiad / Sopran : Milada Šubrtová
The Watersprite / Bass : Eduard Haken
Jezibaba, the Witch / Alto : Marie Ovčačíková
The Prince / Tenor : Ivo Žídek
Prague National Theatre Chorus
Chorus Master : Milan Malý
Prague National Theatre Orchestra
Conductor : Zdeněk Chalabala
Recorded in 1961
New mastering in 2023 by AB for CMRR
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Rusalka, Dvorak's penultimate work, was one of his greatest successes and remains the most popular of Czech operas. Yet to make a mute supernatural creature the main character of an opera is a challenge! The composer creates a situation rich in possibilities by playing on the opposition between the supernatural world, in which Rusalka expresses herself, and the human world, where she remains mute, deprived of speech, which then appears as the instrument of lies and infidelity. Rusalka is linked to the myth of the aquatic creature torn by an impossible love for a human being. We are in the universe of Andersen's famous fairy tale, The Little Mermaid, with the dimension of the fantastic atmosphere of the Slavic popular beliefs where the wood nymphs, the Ondin and the Witch cross paths. The most famous page of the score is the famous "Prayer to the Moon" (Act I) in which poor Rusalka confides her love to the silver star before knocking on the door of the witch who will give her access to the human world.

On the shore of a lake, the nymph Rusalka, daughter of the Ondin, laments. In love with a prince who often comes to bathe in the lake, she would like to become a woman to conquer his love. Her father advises her to turn to the witch Jezibaba. After a fervent prayer to the moon ("Little moon so high in the sky...") Rusalka agrees, in exchange for a magic potion, to lose her voice and to be cursed if her love is rejected. The Prince appears; seduced by the beauty of the nymph who has become a woman, he takes her with him.

Rusalka's arrival at the castle is surrounded by mystery. The prince has changed and his strange fiancée, mute and so cold in appearance, provokes comments. The prince, disoriented, lets himself be seduced by a princess, jealous of Rusalka, who cannot defend herself and leaves to join the Ondin at the edge of the lake to confide in him the failure of her love. Rusalka is cursed and the Ondin drags her into the depths of the lake.

In the evening by the lake, Rusalka laments again. Her sisters have rejected her. She implores the witch who asks her to kill her unfaithful lover in order to save her from the curse. Rusalka refuses with horror. The remorseful prince wants to see his beloved again. Rusalka, who has regained the use of speech, explains to him that the kiss he asks for would lead him to death. Seized by the consequences of his betrayal and the strength of love, he kisses her and dies happily in the arms of the one he had never stopped loving...

This edition revives the legendary production of Chalabala, with soloists whose names are permanently linked to Dvorak's distinctive opera.

Antonín Dvořák PLAYLIST (reference recordings): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3UZpQL9LIxOmR1pAUFUL-0JK-EcbVFUG