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Rusalka Opera

  • 1000 I Street Modesto, CA, 95354 United States (map)

Rusalka Opera

Sunday, April 26, 2026, at 2:00 pm

The Gallo Center, Foster Family Theater

Modesto, CA 

Please let us know if you are planning on attending, and then we could possibly arrange a get-together before or after the performance.

amwenglish1@gmail.com 

If we all purchase tickets in Row N, then we can enjoy each other's company. The tickets for that row are $45.

We already have 10 people going, join us too!

Sokol members who let us know that they have purchased tickets and will attend this performance with us will receive a $10 Starbucks gift card to make the hour drive more fun!

Rusalka is a spellbinding Czech opera by Antonín Dvořák, based in part on Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid. It has many similarities with the Disney variation on the story, paired with a tragic ending. The story tells the tale of a water nymph who trades her ethereal voice for a human form to win the love of a prince. When her dream turns into rejection, betrayal, and tragedy follow. The opera’s most unforgettable moment is the haunting aria “Song to the Moon”, where Rusalka pleads with the moon to carry her love to the prince. With themes of forbidden love and sacrifice, paired with profoundly beautiful music, Rusalka is a dark fairy tale steeped in magic, longing, and tragedy. In Czech with English subtitles. 

Join us to experience a fateful love that awakens from the depths of a forest lake.

Buy your tickets for the 4/26 @ 2 PM performance here

Synopsis of Rusalka

Libretto of Rusalka

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