Release Date

13 Jan, 2017

Runtime

03:08: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

Théâtre Royal de La Monnaie - De Munt

Like Handel’s Orlando (1732) and Ariodante (1734), Alcina derives from the narrative material in Ariosto’s Orlando furioso. The story of the sorceress Alcina, an initially hedonistic, manipulative woman who later finds herself a victim of love, fits into the genre of the ‘magical opera’ with numerous magical elements, but Handel achieved considerable emotional authenticity in his characterisations. This makes Alcina one of the most deeply felt and multifaceted operas. ‘You may despise what you like ; but you cannot contradict Handel,’ said the Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw. As in Tamerlano, Pierre Audi based this production on the stage at the baroque theatre at Drottningholm, for which he originally developed the directing concept. His set is thus based on the principles of perspective, with wings in the form of painted panels. The result is marvellous modern musical theatre in a historizing frame.

Original Title

Alcina

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Actors

Sandrine Piau

Maite Beaumont

Sabina Puértolas

Angélique Noldus

Chloé Briot

Daniel Behle

Giovanni Furlanetto

Crew

Georg Friedrich Händel

Pierre Audi

Patrick Kinmonth

MATTHEW RICHARDSON