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, ...

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 ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Alcina, a beautiful enchantress with a habit of turning people who annoy her into animals and inanimate ...

1 Review: THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO, Royal Ballet And Opera Alcina is a Baroque masterpiece by George Frideric Handel. The title character, Alcina, is a malicious sorceress who lives on an enchanted ...

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 ...

On Thursday night, I was treated to Tim Albery's new production of Handel’s Alcina for Opera North which opened for the first time last month in Leeds. Just over two years on from the UK's first ...

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 ...

It wasn't all about Kasarova's Ruggiero, however, by any means - which shows just what kind of night it was. Inga Kalna's Alcina had the best run of things vocally. Hers is a conventional - ...

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 ...

We live in an era of deception. As if Facebook hadn’t already offered reason to fret over the amplification of fake news, now comes the prospect of an enchanted digital island, a so-called metaverse, ...

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 ...