Having lost her ability to speak, Rusalka (Andrea Baker, right) is at risk from the plot of a foreign princess (Nicole Woodward) who means to have the prince (Edward Brennan) for herself. Photo courtesy Gulfshore Opera
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Gulfshore Opera brings moon, mermaids in English-language ‘Rusalka’
“It took a lot of work. I was actually working on it last year when I was doing Turandot here.”
Walt Disney Pictures had it easy. When its producers needed a lake, all they had to do was draw one. Gulfshore Opera has to build its lake every time it mounts a new performance of Rusalka, the opera drawn from the fairy tale that inspired The Little Mermaid.
