Rusalka

Rusalka falls in love with the prince who often goes to bathe in the lake, and asks her father, the genie of the waters, to help her become a woman. To achieve this, after the famous “Song to the Moon”, she addresses the witch, and assumes some human conditions, although limited. The prince falls in love with her right off the bat, but her muteness and apparent coldness disappoint him and he soon directs her feelings towards a foreign princess, attractive and cruel. Rusalka has to return to her midst—now neither human nor water spirit—and she is condemned to lead men to death. The prince, repentant, returns from her and asks her for one last kiss, although she knows it will cost him her life, and he dies happy in her arms.