Name: Alcina
Start: 2023-02-07T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-02-19T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Gran Teatre del Liceu

Organization

Direzione d'orchestra

Marc Minkowski

Cantante

Soprano

Magdalena Kožená

Alcina

Erin Morley

Morgana

Contralto

Elizabeth DeShong

Bradamante

Controtenore

Anna Bonitatibus

Ruggiero

Tenore

Valerio Contaldo

Oronte

Basso

Alex Rosen

Melisso

Mercedes Gancedo

Oberto

Gran Teatre del Liceu

Cité de la Musique-Philharmonie

Les Musiciens du Louvre

Orchestra

Valenza

Spagna

Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia

Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía

Barcellona

Madrid

Auditorio Nacional de Musica

Amburgo

Germania

Elbphilharmonie

Bordeaux

Francia

Auditorium

Parigi

Philharmonie de Paris

Grande Salle Pierre Boulez

Alcina Händel

Public

Private

Approvato

From Ludovico Ariosto's epic poem Orlando furioso , Händel wrote one of his most popular and inspired operas. Full of fantasy and melodic wit, Il c aro Sassone made - along with Orlando and Ariodante - one of his roundest works.

Released in London's Covent Garden in 1735, it presents a story full of Homeric echoes where the magnificent character of the betrayed witch Alcina draws heroes to her island to seduce them and forget their own land. The fight between Ruggiero and Bradamante to get rid of the evil witch still captivates us. Truffled with the most beautiful vocal pages of his production, Alcina , in its English premiere, featured such important singers as Carestini and Negri.

Is it a risk of perverted love or the delights of unbridled passion? Beyond the supernatural theme, Händel's genius was able to portray Alcina, perhaps one of the most complete and well-profiled soprano roles in opera, as a woman who suffers: deeply human and moving. Each aria is a progressive exercise in psychological deepening where the singing of the defeated witch awakens a strange compassion within us.

A mirage between love and passion, Alcina seems tailor-made for vocal pyrotechnics and to develop the character of the characters in this love drama.

Marc Minkowski, French director and true Handelian specialist, knows how to look for all colors (from subtlety to ambiguity) and will offer an ambitious reading of the work in which feelings, magic and betrayal are mixed, not without a dose of humor. Minkowski, with an extraordinary bouquet of soloists and at the head of his group, Les Musiciens du Louvre, will be able to discover the emotions and desires hidden with all the expressiveness desired by the composer. "I'm looking forward to it again."

English

Alcina by Händel, Da (2023/2023), Direttore d'orchestra Marc Minkowski, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcellona, Spagna

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