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Home | Programs | The Metropolitan Opera | Dvořák’s ‘Rusalka’

Dvořák’s ‘Rusalka’

April 3, 2021, 12:00 pm

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Renée Fleming in the title role of Dvořák's Rusalka (Photo: Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera)

Renée Fleming stars in the title role; Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts.

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