SCENES FROM RUSALKA
Scenes from Antonín Dvořák’s Rusalka | Music Theater Workshop
A cooperation between the Stage Design program at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK Berlin), the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin, and the BSP Business and Law School
Poster of the event | Anastasia Malysheva, Pia Hetfeld, Magdalena Stippl
A dark myth in the depths of the sea. The water nymph Rusalka lives in a world without sunlight, without a today or tomorrow, in the cold of the silent waters, shrouded in darkness. Yet she holds on to hope and the will to tell her own story. She breaks free, gives up her voice, and takes her first steps as a human in a new reality—a reality in which she is now voiceless and a stranger.
Antonín Dvořák’s lyrical fairy tale Rusalka tells a story of becoming, of liberation and transformation. Its questions are more relevant today than ever: Who speaks while others remain silent? Who takes the floor and gets to tell the story? How do we deal with the unfamiliar and the foreign today? With the Rusalkas among us?
In the first music theater workshop of this summer semester, voice and directing students dedicate themselves to Antonín Dvořák’s Rusalka. Together with students from the Berlin University of the Arts and the BSP Business and Law School, they stage selected scenes from the opera and present their perspectives on this well-known work to the audience.
Participants: Voice students of the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin
Musical direction: Prof. Byron Knutson, Peter Meiser
Direction: Leonie Haupt, Milena Wilke, Christina Constanze Polzer
Set and costume design: Students from the Berlin University of the Arts and the BSP Business and Law School
Production dramaturgy (Scene 1): Clara M. Richter
Directing mentorship: Corinna von Rad
Set and costume mentorship: Daniela Zorrozua
Make-up and costume mentorship: Nicole Timm
Scene 1 | Photography by Katinka Schuett
Scene 1
Direction: Leonie Haupt (HfM Hanns Eisler Berlin)
Set design: Paula Krömeke (UdK Berlin)
Costume design: Anastasiia Malysheva (UdK Berlin)
Rusalka: Nelly Thimet
Wassermann: Lovro Skrt
Elfe 1: Lilian von der Nahmer
Elfe 2: Nora Goldnagl
Elfe 3: Haneul Jo
Scene 2 | Photography by Katinka Schuett
Scene 2
Direction: Christina Constanze Polzer (HfM Hanns Eisler Berlin)
Set design: Pertti Hagelstein (UdK Berlin)
Costume design: Pia Hetfeld (BSP Business and Law)
Rusalka: Anastasiia Ranchynska
Jezibaba: Kyungwon Na
Wassermann: Lovro Skrt
Scene 3 | Photography by Katinka Schuett
Scene 3
Direction: Milena Wilke (HfM Hanns Eisler Berlin)
Set design: Valia Lolidou (UdK Berlin)
Costume design: Magdalena Stippl (BSP Business and Law)
Rusalka: Fanni Faluvegi
Prinz: Ondrej Benek
Fürstin: Kanon Adachi
Wassermann: Lovro Skrt
Geister der Vergangenheit: Gerogia Kalogeratou, Elizabeth Kim, Sara Zimmermann
Link to original text in German:
https://www.udk-berlin.de/veranstaltung/musiktheaterwerkstatt-i-szenen-aus-antonin-dvoraks-rusalka/