Richard Bratby, The Spectator - 02/07/2022

Jack Furness’s new staging of Dvorak’s Rusalka at Garsington makes light and shade its playthings: throwing rich shadows through a towering, steampunky steel forest, holding the moonstruck heroine spellbound in a pure white beam, and striking glinting, shimmering reflections from the circular pool of water that dominates the set. It looks breathtaking (Malcolm Rippeth is the lighting designer) and the musical and dramatic performances find a complexity, a depth and a red-blooded emotional truth that I hadn’t thought possible in this lovely but sometimes chilly fairy-tale opera.