Handel: Alcina

Synopsis

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.”

Main Cast

Patricia Petibon

Alcina

Age : 54 | Popularity : 3%

Philippe Jaroussky

Ruggiero

Age : 46 | Popularity : 3%

Anna Prohaska

Morgana

Age : N/A | Popularity : 5%

Katarina Bradic

Bradamante

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Anthony Gregory

Oronte

Age : N/A | Popularity : 7%

Krysztof Baczyk

Melisso

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Elias Mädler

Oberto

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Andrea Marcon

Conductor

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Production	Producer	François Duplat
Crew	Compositors	Georg Friedrich Händel
Directing	Director	Katie Mitchell
Writing	Writer	Antonio Marchi
Department	Role	Name

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