Théâtre Royal de La Monnaie - De Munt
3h 8m · Music
Genres: Music
Like Handel’s Orlando (1732) and Ariodante (1734), Alcina derives from the narrative material in Ariosto’s Orlando furioso. The story of the sorceress Alcina, an initially hedonistic, manipulative woman who later finds herself a victim of love, fits into the genre of the ‘magical opera’ with…
Director: Pierre Audi
Writers: Georg Friedrich Händel