Loading credits…
Natacha, the miller’s daughter, learns that the prince she loves will marry a wealthy princess and throws herself into the Dnieper. Years later, the prince is drawn back to the river by her voice. Natacha has become queen of the rusalkas, and her father pushes the prince into the water, where the rusalkas bring his body to her.
Dargomyzhsky sets Pushkin’s blank-verse play about Don Juan directly as an opera, retaining its text unchanged. The work consists principally of characters’ melodic recitative solos, with two small romances for Laura.
Natacha, the miller’s daughter, learns that the prince she loves will marry a wealthy princess and throws herself into the Dnieper. Years later, the prince is drawn back to the river by her voice. Natacha has become queen of the rusalkas, and her father pushes the prince into the water, where the rusalkas bring his body to her.
Dargomyzhsky sets Pushkin’s blank-verse play about Don Juan directly as an opera, retaining its text unchanged. The work consists principally of characters’ melodic recitative solos, with two small romances for Laura.