June 16, 2019
An otherworldly and beautiful “Rusalka”
Is it something about the northern cold of Scotland that makes its children comfortable in the world of dark elementals? Certainly production lead David MacVicar and set designer John Macfarlane, both Scottish, conjure up a natural world laced with mystery, grief and magic in their production of Dvořák’s Rusalka, which premiered at Chicago Lyric Opera in 2014 and is now at San Francisco Opera.
And what an enticing and gorgeous world it is. Dvořák’s fairy tale opera, using...