Love triangles spark many a drama, but Pittsburgh Opera’s next production features what its stage director calls a “love pentagram.” The intricacies of the relationships seem fitting for the ornate ...

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 ...

How eactly did Milwaukee Opera Theatre come to be performing Handel's Baroque opera "Alcina" in the vintage shop Dandy? It began, MOT Producing Artistic Director Jill Anna Ponasik said in a phone ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Alcina is a Baroque masterpiece by George Frideric Handel. The title character, ...

Ah, the opera. It is an otherworldly experience to sit in a hushed, dimly lit theater, gazing at the stage as a hidden orchestra strikes the first stirring chord. The drama is also a cathartic ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. George Frideric Handel composed the opera seria, ALCINA, for a 1735 ...

George Frideric Handel’s Alcina, which opened at Santa Fe Opera on Saturday night, is a fantasy about how people distinguish deception from reality when they are enchanted by love and magic. Whether ...

There is a lot of opera on DVD lately, and the recent Arthaus Musik release of Handel's "Alcina" might have passed unnoticed save for an important local connection: It is a live 1999 recording of the ...

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, ...

Opera Vivente has a tendency to do its own thing, cutting an eclectic swath through repertoire and often presenting productions that come with fresh twists. So it’s not surprising that the company ...

Jendi Tarde (Morgana), left, and Hannah Ceniseros (Bradamante) perform during a dress rehearsal of Handel's Alcina at Arts Mission Oak Cliff on Thursday, March 1, 2018. Rex C. Curry / Special ...