Duo Rusalka is made up of two Italian artists, both of whom are teachers at the Conservatoire de Lausanne. Together they create programs which incorporate different art forms (dance, poetry, texts, singing), whose works are interwoven with a common thread. 

The Duo regularly collaborates with the dancers Bianca Bonaldi and Nicole McLaren, the soprano Laure Barras, the storyteller Olivier Burkhalter and the writer Giovanni Perotto, who is the main author of the proposed texts and projects. Duo Rusalka is regularly invited to perform as part of many concert seasons (Les Concerts de Grandson, the Midi-Concerts season at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne, La Villa du Châtelet in Evian, Le Festival du Bois qui Chante in Chateau d’Oex, the Lunch-Concerts at the Centre le Phénix in Fribourg, the concerts at the Château de la Doges in La Tour-de-Peilz, the Aperitif-concerts at the Château Mercier in Sierre, the Festival Omaggio a Cava Grande in Sicily and the Festival dell’Alta Val Nervia in Castel Vittorio in Liguria). 

Particularly sensitive to the social aspect of music, Valentina Rebaudo and Irene Puccia are members of Les Concerts du Coeur, an association which wishes to make music part of the daily life of the elderly, hospitalized, incarcerated or disadvantaged, in order to bring solace and healing through high quality concerts.

The name of the Duo finds its inspiration from the character of Rusalka, a marine nymph from Slavic mythology. This latter renounces immortality and her voice in the name of Love. The Duo Rusalka sees in this character the symbol of the will to break down all frontiers between different cultures through art, listening and meeting. 

To date, five musical programs have already been created : Portraits of love, Travelling in the wind, Influence, Clara, the composer, Fellini-Rota “Nulla si sa, tutto si immagina”.