LONG STORY SHORT - Dvořák/Rusalka

[@suzannedowling3576]

Love your approach to providing us the plot - full of fun and delightful narration!

[@zenaniv]

You are so funny and very informative. Blessings!

[@alenahermanova9424]

Nice vid, thank you. Please, the pronunciation of Ježibaba is more like: YE-ZHI-BA-BA (zh more like the beggining of "Julles" in French), so no Jazz feeling here 😀. And yes, Rusalka could talk to her father because, as someone mentioned here, the curse exactly said she would be mute to all humans, which Vodník (Water spirit) is not. I love how non-trivial the characters are, for example the Witch looks like a good, helping granny at first, but changes drastically to mocking, malicious and scornful, who actually didn't help, but tricked Rusalka into cursing herself. Just fabulously written libretto! ❤

[@renaudricciuti1847]

Chouette vidéo! Et oui, c'est chouette d'avoir un ténor qui meurt d'amour pour une fois!

[@AlyaaAlyiz]

Ahah, ces résumés sont des perles XD Thank you so much! I love the drawings and I laughed. Despite of the drama :p

[@INOBT100]

Probably the most famous Czech opera in the world; just like "Carmen" is the most famous French opera in the world

[@vladpyzhov4620]

The video is really lit!! Thank you very much, always wanted to know the story (and the fun fact about Renee Fleming also heh)

[@janach1305]

This is one of the few operas I know of in which the man dies and the woman doesn’t. Usually the rule in opera is that when the woman dies, the man may or may not die as well, but when the man dies, the woman never has the strength of character to survive him. Can anyone think of exceptions besides Rusalka and Werther?

[@alenahermanova9424]

Cavalleria Rusticana...? Santuzza faints, but doesn't die, I guess.

[@stasektarkowsky7683]

Song to the moon lyrics: Oh moon in the deep sky, your light sees far, you roam over the wide world, and peer into human dwellings. Oh moon, stay a while, tell me, where is my love? Tell him, silvery moon, that my arms enfold him, so that for at least a moment he’ll remember me in his dream. Shine for him into the distance, tell him who awaits him here! If the human soul dreams of me, may he awake with that thought! Oh moon, don’t fade!

[@rafaellemadeo9373]

Moi sur la route du boulot, écoutant France Musique : Suzanne Gervais, présentatrice de la rubrique Musique Connectée au sujet de compositrices baroques peu connues: et sinon vous pouvez allez voir la chaîne YT" L'opéra et ses zouz" pour en savoir plus! Moi: aaaaah mais je connais ! (trop fière ) 😁😁😁

[@babageno4371]

Bravo pour la vidéo ! (par contre je crois que tu t'es emmêlé les pinceaux, le lien pour voir l'opéra en entier renvoie vers Tosca)

Tu as complètement raison!! Je change ça tout de suite, merci :-)

[@Toninjinka]

Moi je voudrais parcourir le monde, moi je voudrais voir le monde danser... 🎙️🎵 Non en vrai j'ai regardé la vidéo hein :D Mais le film de Disney a des bonnes musiques aussi :D Je regardai l'air du cuistot à l'instant, doublé par Gérard Rinaldi. J'aime beaucoup sa voix, il fait aussi Ratigan dans Basile, détective privé! Il y avait aussi la grande Micheline Dax qui faisait Ursula! Ces doubleurs avaient un sacré talent (dans la voix comme dans le jeu)! :D Bon j'arrête le HS! Très bonne vidéo, comme d'hab! :)

Merci beaucoup :-)

[@svenredecker3755]

Well done 🙂

[@itsesmeriel]

I've seen it in Vienna, but the music was too... Modern? for me.

[@MultiBritt08]

Fun video! Rusalka can speak to her father because the witch told her she will be mute to human ears. At least that's what I got from watching the Met Opera production. Her father is obviously not human, nor is the witch (entirely anyway) or her sisters.

[@e_mmmme]

😂❤😂

[@azarchalabiani592]

You're so sweet

[@Audeytte]

Lol non X'D

[@evelynlz]

The opera is literally just copying H. C. Andersen farytales😄

[@stasektarkowsky7683]

I dont think so. Rusalka is based on the fairy tales of Karel Jaromír Erben (1811-1870) and Božena Němcová (1820-1862) inspired by Czech collected verbal art. A rusalka is a water sprite from Slavic mythology, usually inhabiting a lake or river. Just because something is more famous doesnt mean its first or only one pure. Exactly Rusalka show there are many similarities at different countries myths. Im not surprised, ppl from the West are selfish and arrogant and common at appropriated others ideas and calling them mine. Btw first publication of H. C. Andersens fairytales in Bohemia (today Czech republic) was in 1905. The opera is from 1900. Maybe H. C. Andersen literally just copied Czech mythology?