| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 12-Nov-2011 Salle Wilfrid Pelletier | An Otherworldly Rusalka with L'Opera de Montréal |
Rusalka is a strange love story—one that ends with a man dying in the embrace of a woman (as opposed to the classic opposite). The story’s end finds no closure, but instead acts as the birth of a fearsome Czech folktale about a water nymph who is doomed to ensnare young men. And finally, the opera contains but one ‘love aria’ which appears in the final scene, and ends in tragic death.Read full review... | |