Handel: Alcina

Handel: Alcina

2015 en 187 minutes

Rating: 7

Plot

Philippe Jaroussky as Ruggiero is in thrall to Patricia Petibon as the sorceress Alcina in Katie Mitchell’s virtuosic production of Handel’s opera from the 2015 Aix-en-Provence Festival, described by Bachtrack as “a night of a thousand delights”. Conducted by Andrea Marcon, this was, in the words of Opera News, “musically … a performance of the highest festival level”. The production of Alcina, by the British director Katie Mitchell, was welcomed by the Financial Times as “meticulously executed …, rich in detail, consummately polished”. As the New York Times wrote: “It involves a huge sorcery machine for turning people into animals (or whatever). And Ms. Mitchell works magic of her own onstage, constantly showing the enchantresses Alcina and Morgana alternating between glamorous public personas and their ‘real life’, older, private selves …There are also bits of simulated sex, mingling genders and suggesting, among other things, inventive new ways to hit high notes.”

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Cast

Patricia Petibon

Patricia Petibon

Alcina

Philippe Jaroussky

Philippe Jaroussky

Ruggiero

Anna Prohaska

Anna Prohaska

Morgana

Katarina Bradic

Katarina Bradic

Bradamante

Anthony Gregory

Anthony Gregory

Oronte

Krysztof Baczyk

Krysztof Baczyk

Melisso

Elias Mädler

Elias Mädler

Oberto

Andrea Marcon

Andrea Marcon

Conductor

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