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 ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — When the sorceress Alcina sets a spell in motion during the opera that bears her name, she entrancingly waves her wand over her forest of once-human trees; her imprisoned lover, ...

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 ...

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 ...

In Opera Atelier’s Alcina, Meghan Lindsay plays a “man-eater,” Wallis Giunta plays a woman disguised as a man and Mireille Asselin plays a fairy who falls in love with him/her. It’s a good thing the ...

As Opera North stages Handel’s Alcina, its first environmentally sustainable mainstage production, guided by the principles set out in The Stage Award-winning Theatre Green Book, two of the creatives ...

Quietly affecting, the Washington National Opera’s new production of Handel’s Alcina (★★★) is a gift to baroque lovers and anyone who needs a bit more 18th century harpsichord in their life. With ...

Alcina is a sorceress seeking love, when Ruggiero arrives on her magic island she charms him into adoring her without measure In the Israeli Opera rehearsal room, soprano Yael Levita (Alcina) and ...

The Royal Opera House has banned an audience member for booing a 12-year-old performer’s aria in a new staging of Handel’s Alcina. Malakai M Bayoh was heckled by an unidentified person who shouted ...