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 ...

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 ...

The IU Jacobs School of Music Opera and Ballet Theater has now demonstrated its excellence in baroque opera with a stunning production of “Alcina,” which premiered Feb. 7-8. George Frideric Handel’s ...

October’s production of Alcina at Seattle Opera shows off Handel at his most enchanting. Showcasing this opera’s wonderful melodies, strong characters, and vocal pyrotechnics for the first time on the ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Time was, not so long ago, that Covent Garden and the Coliseum were in friendly and fruitful opposition. While the Royal Opera did its gold-plated thing, English National Opera – like David facing ...

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 ...