Kara Mulder and Alice Chung in Rusalka at the Academy of Vocal Arts. (Photo by Paul Sirochman)

Academy of Vocal Arts’ Rusalka—surprisingly, only their second venture in many years into the Slavic repertoire—left a divided impression. As an opportunity to hear promising young artists, always the key mission at AVA, it made its mark with several distinguished performances. As a production of a wonderful but difficult opera, it was a misfire.

Let’s start with the positives—especially, two really terrific assumptions: Alice Chung as Jezibaba and John Matthew Myers as the Prince. Still in her first year at AVA, Chung has already been noteworthy as the Zia Principessa in Suor Angelica; here, she made an even stronger impression…

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