RUSALKA

Born from the cold waters of a lake, the water sprite Rusalka aspires to become a woman out of love for the prince with whom she is smitten. The witch who agrees to help her warns that her transformation will come at a high price: not only will she have to sacrifice her voice, but failure will mean eternal damnation.

A lyric tale inspired in part by Andersen's The Little Mermaid, Antonín Dvořák's penultimate opera, first performed in Prague in 1901, boasts spellbinding music, with orchestration as sparkling as the silver moon shimmering in the waters.

Seamlessly slipping into this organic, poetic universe, Robert Carsen devises a staging of great visual inventiveness: using an interplay of symmetries and duplications, he evokes reflections in the water as much as the mirror of dreams, revealing the impasse of an unnatural transgression.

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Conditions of access to dress rehearsals:

• The presentation of your Arop card is mandatory to collect your ticket at the Arop control on the same evening.

• At the Palais Garnier and the Opéra Bastille, we have "Protocol" seats.

• Seats are assigned by membership level: Founding Patron members (Mécène Fondateurs) have priority over Patron members (Mécènes).

• Seats are assigned by order of booking arrival (first booking, first served) and cannot be guaranteed in case of late registration.

• Seating is free in the reserved areas: we advise you to arrive one hour before the start of the rehearsal.

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