A baroque-style opera about a lovelorn sorceress, staged in a local vintage shop—that's Alcina, a collaboration between Milwaukee Opera Theatre and Early Music Now. Incredibly intrigued by this ...
MassOpera will present Alcina by George Frideric Handel. Performances run June 27-29. Alcina, spearheaded by Hannah Shanefield, director and Julian Gau, conductor, brings to life the timeless tale of ...
Handel’s opera is full of glorious music but its improbable plot makes it difficult to stage; Tim Albery’s intelligent production only fitfully succeeds Few will challenge Alcina’s claims to contain ...
Jane Archibald rises to the challenge as nightclub proprietor Alcina, as this lavish, campy production – with punchy playing by the OAE – transports the action to a 1960s Italian metropolis Theatrical ...
Little do we know at the Mahaiwe, though, that, far before Alcina sang out her magic, the Boston Early Music Festival had already put us under a much more powerful enchantment. In its two-day ...
When the curtain came down on the first night of the Royal Opera’s fantastical new staging of Alcina, I was of the opinion that every opera production from now on should contain an angry, dancing ...
As Opera North stages Handel’s Alcina, its first environmentally sustainable mainstage production, guided by the principles set out in The Stage Award-winning Theatre Green Book, two of the creatives ...