Dvorak: Rusalka / Welser-most, Nylund, Magee, Held

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Orfeo
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July 15, 2011
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      DVORAK, ANTONIN
    • PERFORMER
      Beczala, Magee, Nylund, Held, Remmert, Plachetka, Liebau, Schmutzhand, Prohaska, Atanasov, Minutillo
    Product Details ⌄
    Works ⌄

    1. Act I: Prelude

      Composer: Antonín Dvořák

      Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra

      Conductor: Franz Welser-Möst

    2. Act I: Allegro molto

      Composer: Antonín Dvořák

      Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra

      Conductor: Franz Welser-Möst

    3. Act I: Hou, hou, hou (Wood Nymphs)

      Composer: Antonín Dvořák

      Ensemble: Chor der Wiener Staatsoper, Cleveland Orchestra

      Conductor: Franz Welser-Möst

    4. Act I: I pěkně vítám (Water Sprite, Wood Nymphs)

      Composer: Antonín Dvořák

      Ensemble: Chor der Wiener Staatsoper, Cleveland Orchestra

      Performer: Alan Held

      Conductor: Franz Welser-Möst

    5. Act I: Uličnická havěť! (Water Sprite)

      Composer: Antonín Dvořák

      Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra

      Performer: Alan Held

      Conductor: Franz Welser-Möst

    6. Act I: Hastrmánku, tatíčku (Rusalka, Water Sprite)

      Composer: Antonín Dvořák

      Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra

      Performer: Camilla Nylund, Alan Held

      Conductor: Franz Welser-Möst

    7. Act I: Sem často přichází (Rusalka, Water Sprite)

      Composer: Antonín Dvořák

      Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra

      Performer: Camilla Nylund, Alan Held

      Conductor: Franz Welser-Möst

    8. Act I: Měsíčku na nebi hlubokém (Rusalka)

      Composer: Antonín Dvořák

      Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra

      Performer: Camilla Nylund

      Conductor: Franz Welser-Möst

    9. Act I: Ta voda studi! (Rusalka, Water Sprite, Jezibaba)

      Composer: Antonín Dvořák

      Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra

      Performer: Camilla Nylund, Alan Held, Birgit Remmert

      Conductor: Franz Welser-Möst

    10. Act I: Staletá moudrost tvá všechno ví (Rusalka, Jezibaba)

      Composer: Antonín Dvořák

      Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra

      Performer: Camilla Nylund, Birgit Remmert

      Conductor: Franz Welser-Möst

    11. Act I: Tedy pojd', honem podj (Ježibaba)

      Composer: Antonín Dvořák

      Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra

      Performer: Birgit Remmert

      Conductor: Franz Welser-Möst

    12. Act I: Čury mury fuk (Ježibaba, Water Sprite)

      Composer: Antonín Dvořák

      Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra

      Performer: Birgit Remmert, Alan Held

      Conductor: Franz Welser-Möst

    13. Act I: Jel mladý lovec, jel a jel (Lovec, Prince)

      Composer: Antonín Dvořák

      Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra

      Performer: Daniel Schmutzhard, Piotr Beczała

      Conductor: Franz Welser-Möst

    14. Act I: Ustaňte v lovu, na hrad vraťte se (Prince)

      Composer: Antonín Dvořák

      Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra

      Performer: Piotr Beczała

      Conductor: Franz Welser-Möst

    15. Act I: Vidino divná, přesladká (Prince, Water Nymphs, Water Sprite)

      Composer: Antonín Dvořák

      Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra

      Performer: Piotr Beczała, Anna Prohaska, Stephanie Atanasov, Hannah Esther Minutillo, Alan Held

      Conductor: Franz Welser-Möst

    16. Act I: Sestry, sestry, sestry (Chorus, Water Sprite)

      Composer: Antonín Dvořák

      Ensemble: Chor der Wiener Staatsoper, Cleveland Orchestra

      Performer: Alan Held

      Conductor: Franz Welser-Möst

    17. Act I: Vím, že jsi kouzlo (Prince)

      Composer: Antonín Dvořák

      Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra

      Performer: Piotr Beczała

      Conductor: Franz Welser-Möst

    18. Act II: Jářku, klouče milé (Gamekeeper, Kitchen Boy)

      Composer: Antonín Dvořák

      Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra

      Performer: Adam Plachetka, Eva Liebau

      Conductor: Franz Welser-Möst

    19. Act II: U nás v lese straší (Gamekeeper, Kitchen Boy)

      Composer: Antonín Dvořák

      Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra

      Performer: Adam Plachetka, Eva Liebau

      Conductor: Franz Welser-Möst

    20. Act II: Již týden (Prince, Princess)

      Composer: Antonín Dvořák

      Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra

      Performer: Piotr Beczała, Emily Magee

      Conductor: Franz Welser-Möst

    21. Act II: Zda na chvíli princ vzpomene si přec (Princess, Prince)

      Composer: Antonín Dvořák

      Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra

      Performer: Piotr Beczała, Emily Magee

      Conductor: Franz Welser-Möst

    22. Act II: Verwandlung. Allegro

      Composer: Antonín Dvořák

      Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra

      Conductor: Franz Welser-Möst

    23. Act II: Moderato maestoso

      Composer: Antonín Dvořák

      Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra

      Conductor: Franz Welser-Möst

    24. Act II: Beda! Beda! (Water Sprite)

      Composer: Antonín Dvořák

      Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra

      Performer: Alan Held

      Conductor: Franz Welser-Möst

    25. Act II: Květiny bílé po cestě (Chorus, Water Sprite)

      Composer: Antonín Dvořák

      Ensemble: Chor der Wiener Staatsoper, Cleveland Orchestra

      Performer: Alan Held

      Conductor: Franz Welser-Möst

    26. Act II: Rusalko, znáš mne, znáš! (Water Sprite)

      Composer: Antonín Dvořák

      Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra

      Performer: Alan Held

      Conductor: Franz Welser-Möst

    27. Act II: Ó marno, ó marno to je (Rusalka)

      Composer: Antonín Dvořák

      Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra

      Performer: Camilla Nylund

      Conductor: Franz Welser-Möst

    28. Act II: Vidíš je, vidíš? Jsou tu zas! (Rusalka, Princess, Prince, Water Sprite)

      Composer: Antonín Dvořák

      Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra

      Performer: Camilla Nylund, Emily Magee, Piotr Beczała, Alan Held

      Conductor: Franz Welser-Möst

    29. Act III: Prelude: Allegro

      Composer: Antonín Dvořák

      Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra

      Conductor: Franz Welser-Möst

    30. Act III: Necitelná vodní moci (Rusalka)

      Composer: Antonín Dvořák

      Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra

      Performer: Camilla Nylund

      Conductor: Franz Welser-Möst

    31. Act III: Aj aj, už jsi se navrátila? (Ježibaba, Rusalka)

      Composer: Antonín Dvořák

      Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra

      Performer: Birgit Remmert, Camilla Nylund

      Conductor: Franz Welser-Möst

    32. Act III: Vyrvána životu (Rusalka, Water Nymphs)

      Composer: Antonín Dvořák

      Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra

      Performer: Camilla Nylund, Anna Prohaska, Stephanie Atanasov, Hannah Esther Minutillo

      Conductor: Franz Welser-Möst

    33. Act III: Že se bojíš? Třesky, plesky (Gamekeeper, Kitchen Boy, Jezibaba, Water Sprite)

      Composer: Antonín Dvořák

      Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra

      Performer: Adam Plachetka, Eva Liebau, Birgit Remmert, Alan Held

      Conductor: Franz Welser-Möst

    34. Act III: Mám, zlaté vlásky mám (Wood Nymphs, Water Sprite)

      Composer: Antonín Dvořák

      Ensemble: Chor der Wiener Staatsoper, Cleveland Orchestra

      Performer: Alan Held

      Conductor: Franz Welser-Möst

    35. Act III: Bílá moje lani! (Prince)

      Composer: Antonín Dvořák

      Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra

      Performer: Piotr Beczała

      Conductor: Franz Welser-Möst

    36. Act III: Miláčku, znáš mne, znáš? (Rusalka, Prince)

      Composer: Antonín Dvořák

      Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra

      Performer: Camilla Nylund, Piotr Beczała

      Conductor: Franz Welser-Möst

    37. Act III: Líbej mne, líbej, mír mi přej (Prince, Rusalka, Water Sprite)

      Composer: Antonín Dvořák

      Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra

      Performer: Piotr Beczała, Camilla Nylund, Alan Held

      Conductor: Franz Welser-Möst


The 2008 Salzburg Festival production of Dvorák's opera Rusalka was outstanding even by the Festival's high artistic standards. Its exceptional nature was due in part to the fact that in the pit the Cleveland Orchestra was appearing for the first time as an opera orchestra in Salzburg. The high expectations raised by the orchestra and its Music Director, Franz Welser-Möst, were fully met, and even in the live recording of the opening night made by Austrian Radio, the conductor's genuinely dramatic approach to the work is never less than gripping.

The fairytale narrative gains in psychological focus and depth, aided and abetted by the team of soloists headed by Camilla Nylund as Rusalka and Piotr Beczala as the Prince. To the role of the water nymph, Nylund brings a beautiful lyric soprano voice that retains its focus and penetrating power even in the score's most dramatic outbursts, while the bright tenor voice of Piotr Beczala produces a convincing vocal portrait of the hapless heroine's inconstant lover, following her decision to enter the world of mortals. The remaining roles were cast from strength, notably the admonitory figure of the Water Goblin, taken here by Alan Held, whose powerful Wagnerian bass-baritone lends the role an impressive profile; Birgit Remmert, with her dark-hued, impressively full-toned voice and Emily Magee's burnished soprano, with its brilliant upper register.

Particularly gratifying in a Salzburg Festival production is the casting of minor roles with promising young singers including Eva Liebau as the Turnspit, Adam Plachetka as the Gamekeeper and the three well-modulated wood nymphs of Anna Prohaska, Stephanie Atasanov and Hannah Esther Minutillo. Appearing alongside this team of singers is the Vienna State Opera Chorus on outstanding form. All in all, then, it comes as no surprise to know that the response to the musical side of this production was extremely positive, a response which it is hoped will be repeated in the case of the present live recording.