Fans of “The Little Mermaid” will love composer Antonín Dvořák’s opera “Rusalka” (Portland Opera, Keller Auditorium, April 22, 28 and 30).

A water sprite (Rusalka) falls in love with a prince, and loses her voice in the transition to becoming human. She then loses her prince to a human princess, and is cancelled by her watery community. Living in no man’s land, she is forced to kill the pining prince with a kiss to survive. (There’s a protective dad and a cunning forest witch, too.)

Joseph Gallivan is a news and features writer based in Portland, Ore.

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