• Sausages & Beer at the Opera

    Only in the Czech Republic can one add greasy sausages and frothy pivo to the beautiful production of Antonín Dvorák’s opera Rusalka. Saturday afternoon a group from IBTS joined the crowds trailing through the paths of the Šárka Valley for this once a year musical performance hidden in the forest of Prague 6. The cool of the woods and the warmth of the sun was the set for the opera which told the story of Rusalka, a water nymph who falls in love with a human Prince with the sacrifice and pain of love lost and found… and in Dvorak’s opera, eventually lost forever. Families with young children, teenagers and…