Alcina, a beautiful enchantress with a habit of turning people who annoy her into animals and inanimate objects, has succeeded in bewitching Ruggiero, a handsome knight. He's been living with Alcina ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lisette Oropesa in Alcina (Marc Brenner) In Handel’s gloriously tuneful opera Alcina the eponymous enchantress presides over a ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Justin Way's new production of Handel's Alcina is full of creative energy, juxtaposing brilliant but short-lived theatrical effects against well-sung but interminable arias. Designers Andrew Hays, ...

Before going to Glyndebourne to see Handel's Alcina, I spoke to two friends who had already seen it and their reports were almost identical: the music was brilliant, the singing was superb, the ...

In Alcina earthbound reality is hardly anywhere to be seen. We are on a magic island ruled by the enchantress of the title, who disposes of her many lovers by turning them into wild beasts or rocks, ...

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 ...

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