This highly acclaimed production from the Bayerische Staatsoper, a powerful and fascinating re-interpretation of Dvořák’s fairy-tale opera Rusalka, was a revelation: the young, up-and-coming Latvian soprano, Kristīne Opolais, whose performance was rightly hailed by the press as “one of the most vivid and striking accomplishments seen on an opera stage in a long time” (Vienna’s leading daily Der Standard). With her supple and velvety soprano voice, her captivating physical beauty and her hauntingly moving stage presence, Kristīne Opolais perfectly embodies the role of the water nymph who becomes a human being in order to find love.

Bonus: Making of “Rusalka”

Cast:
- Rusalka: Kristīne Opolais
- Prince: Klaus Florian Vogt
- Foreign Princess: Nadia Krasteva
- Water Goblin: Günther Groissböck
- Ježibaba: Janina Baechle
- Forester: Ulrich Reß
- Kitchen Boy: Tara Erraught
- Hunter: John Chest
- 1st Wood Nymph: Evgeniya Sotnikova
- 2nd Wood Nymph: Angela Brower
- 3rd Wood Nymph: Okka von der Damerau

Staged by: Martin Kušej
Recording date: Bayerische Staatsoper, 2010
Sound format: Dolby Stereo, dts 5.0
Picture format: 16:9, HD
Subtitles: Eng, Ger, Fr, Sp, Cn, Kor; Bonus: Eng
Booklet: Eng, Ger, Fr
Total running time: 192 mins (156 mins Opera + 36 mins Bonus)