Welcome to Alcina’s island paradise. All men who set foot there fall under her spell, but soon discover it’s all an illusion: Alcina is an enchantress whose island is nothing but a barren wasteland, ...

The 2022 Olivier-winning production returns with a double injection of fresh energy from mezzo-soprano Beth Taylor and conductor David Bates ...

Ah, the opera. It is an otherworldly experience to sit in a hushed, dimly lit theater, gazing at the stage as a hidden orchestra strikes the first stirring chord. The drama is also a cathartic ...

Alcina is a Baroque masterpiece by George Frideric Handel. The title character, Alcina, is a malicious sorceress who lives on an enchanted island with her sister Morgana. Alcina uses her magic spells ...

Like the simultaneous tragedy and comedy in Strauss' "Ariadne auf Naxos," the San Francisco Opera premiere of "Alcina" plays like two performances occupying the same stage at the same time. One is a ...

Divas literally tear up the scenery in Handel’s ripping Alcina, an Indiana University Opera production inhabiting the Musical Arts Center through Feb. 13 and 14. On opening night, a full house ...

Alcina at Royal Opera: A magical evening - 4/5 Richard Jones’ production of Handel’s opera is bizarre but beautiful revival ...

What makes opera relevant? In the case of Washington National Opera’s “Alcina,” it may be the production team. The conductor coaxing such sinuous and sometimes vehement sounds out of the Washington ...

George Frideric Handel composed the opera seria, ALCINA, for a 1735 premiere at the London's Theatre Royal. Handel's anonymous librettist based his text on Riccardo Broschi's 1728 Roman libretto for L ...

Handel’s operas, once exotic rarities, have become more familiar in recent years. However, due to the structure of American opera houses, with their permanent orchestras, it is rare to hear them ...

There is a lot of opera on DVD lately, and the recent Arthaus Musik release of Handel's "Alcina" might have passed unnoticed save for an important local connection: It is a live 1999 recording of the ...