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More than anything in the world, the water nymph Rusalka yearns to become human to win the heart of a young prince. But this metamorphosis comes at a price: she will lose her voice and be damned forever should their love story fail.

No reflection of a silver moon in the dried-up lake below. International Opera Awards 2020 nominee Dirk Schmeding stages Antonín Dvořák’s opera Rusalka at Staatstheater Braunschweig far removed from its usual poetic fairytale world. Stuck in the horror vision of a decaying no man’s land, US soprano Julie Adams embodies the title character lost between two worlds.

Part folklore, part opera-ballet, this féerie presents local pagan traditions on the day of the summer solstice and historical events from Cossack times to the more recent 2014 Ukrainian Revolution of Dignity.

After forty years of oblivion and ban by the Soviet authorities, Ukrainian composer Yevhen Stankovych's opera-ballet When the FernBlooms finally premiered at the Lviv National Opera in 2017. Unique in its genre, this impressive performance combines millennia-old folk traditions with an expressive musical language, choral singing and contemporary choreography set against spectacular scenery.

Nothing is what it seems in an old English manor. When a new governess arrives, the children entrusted to her care seem to receive visits from the ghosts. What horrors occurred here before her arrival? Are the children innocent? Can we really trust what we see?

Based on a ghost story by Henry James, Benjamin Britten’s The Turn of the Screw is a psychological thriller in chamber opera format. The work’s layered and emotionally charged nature is an ideal fit for the director Andrea Breth. Together with the British conductor Ben Glassberg, she turns the screw of your imagination until the tension becomes unbearable.

A famous singer lives only for art and love. But when she finds herself caught in a web of politics, corruption, lies and lust, she is forced to make a terrible choice.
To this day, Tosca is one of the most popular and ageless operas. With its cinematographic pace, abundant leitmotifs and massive orchestrations, Puccini renewed and transcended Italian melodrama and the verismo genre. Sondra Radvanovsky, Joseph Calleja and Carlos Álvarez lead this operatic thriller in the midst of a revolution, under the direction of Paco Azorín and the baton of Nicola Luisotti.

Journey to Yellowstone National Park, a 3,500 sq mile (9,000sq km) wilderness in the heart of the Northern Rocky Mountains. Yellowstone is the heart of one of the planet’s most intact ecosystems, and sits atop one of the world’s largest active volcanoes. Here we see the surface expression of that volcanism in the form of geysers, hot springs, mudpots and fumaroles, and have a chance to remember we are truly on a living, breathing planet!
Though it was the geologic wonders that set Yellowstone aside as the world’s first National Park, the park is now known as a wildlife haven, one of the last places in the world to have all of its pre-colonial mammal populations, including large predators like grizzly bears and wolves.
Lesser known is the 11,000-year history of humans on the landscape, the creation of the National Park Service, and the incredible amount of science and fundamental human knowledge that comes out of Yellowstone.
Join Ashea, your Yellowstone guide of 25 years for a journey around the “Grand Loop” road system to explore the highlights, take in the sights, and hear fantastic tales of the oldest National Park in the world!

he finals of the 23rd annual Lotte Lenya Competition brings together 15 exceptional singing actors to New York City. Emerging from a pool of 500 contestants from around the globe, Lenya Competition finalists will show they can ‘do it all’ by bringing to life four contrasting theatrical pieces.
In 1998, on the occasion of the centenary of the birth of Lotte Lenya, an extraordinary singer/actress and one of the greatest interpreters of her husband Kurt Weill's music, the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music established an annual competition bearing her name. It rewards talented young performers who, like Lenya herself, are convincing both dramatically and musically in a wide repertoire ranging from contemporary Broadway scores to opera/opera, not forgetting the works of Kurt Weill.

The Spanish crown princess receives a very special present: a little person. To everyone’s amusement, he is unaware of his small stature. Before long feelings develop between the pair, but what chance do they have in a world where appearance is everything?
Based on a story by Oscar Wilde, Der Zwerg (The Dwarf) is perhaps Zemlinsky’s best-known and most powerful opera. The performance marks both the first production of rising star Lorenzo Viotti as principal conductor at Dutch National Opera and the operatic debut of film and theatre director Nanouk Leopold. The heldentenor Clay Hilley performs the title role, while Infanta Clara is interpreted by soprano Lenneke Ruiten.