Artist

Admin

Singer

Rebecca de Almeida

Alcina

Madison Marie Mcintosh

Melissa

Daniel Kamalic

Ruggiero

Samuel Bowen

Nettuno

Lighting designer

Joe Maturano

Heather O’Connor

Second Lady

Rongjun Li

First Tenor

Sung Shin

Second Tenor

Chorus master

Dara Blackstone

Allison Waggener

Third Lady

Conductor

Adrian Sylveen

Stage director

Alan Mann

Maria Margiolakou

Sirena

Orchestra

Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra

Connecticut Lyric Opera

Matias Vergara Moyano

La liberazione di Ruggiero dall'isola d'Alcina -  (The Liberation of Ruggiero from the Island of Alcina)

Hartford

United States

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum

New Britain

Trinity On Main

La liberazione di Ruggiero dall'isola d'Alcina Caccini

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Opera

The Liberation of Ruggiero from the Island of Alcina

Approved

Cast:
Alcina – Rebecca Batista De Almeida
Melissa – Madison Marie McIntosh
Ruggerio – Daniel Kamalić
First Lady, Sirena – Maria Margiolakou
Second Lady – Heather O’Connor
Third Lady – Allison Waggener
Nettuna, Ensemble – Samuel Bowen
First Tenor (Ensemble) – Rongjun Li
Second Tenor (Ensemble) – Sung Shin

Creative Team:
Adrian Sylveen, Artistic Director, Conductor
Alan Mann, Stage Director
Martin Dahlin, Stage Manager
Dara Blackstone – Chorus Master
Joe Maturano – Lights

Production Coordination:

Terri Stangl – Development Coordinator
Theresa MacNaughton – Public Relations
Ruth Connors – House Manager
Walter Gibson – Orchestra Coordinator
Martin Dahlin – Stage Help & Orchestra Operations
Raymund Krzyszczyk – Video Production
Elias Dahlin – Assistant Video Production
Sofia Sylveen – Photography

Orchestra Personnel:
 
Violins:
Brunilda Myftaraj
Katalin Viszmeg
Viola: Jessica Heller
Cello: Andrea Mills
Bass: Kevin Hunn
Flute: Jill Davis
Oboe: Johanna Lamb
Basson: Jennifer Bruening
Horns: 
Roger Caruk
Emily Boyer
Trombone: Topher Logan
Harpsichord: Adrian Sylveen

Fri Nov 5 – 7:30 pm New Britain Trinity-On-Main
Sun Nov 7 – 2:00 pm Hartford Wadsworth Atheneum  
OPERA – La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina (by Francesca Caccini)
(in connection with the Exhibition “By Her Hand: Artemesia Gentileschi and Women Artists in Italy, 1500 – 1800“)
Full Opera Production with the CT Lyric Opera

Connecticut Lyric Opera and Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra present Italian Baroque composer Francesca Caccini’s opera “La liberazione di Ruggiero dalla’isola d’Alcina'' on Friday, November 5, at 7:30 pm at Trinity-On-Main in New Britain. The opera, part daring action rescue and part mystic saga, is the first to be written by a woman.
Conducted by Adrian Sylveen, Artistic Director of Connecticut Lyric Opera and Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, and staged by Alan Mann, Artistic Director of Opera Theater of Connecticut.
Cast: Rebecca Batista de Almeida (Alcina), Madison Marie McIntosh, (Melissa), Daniel Kamalić (Ruggiero), Maria Margiolakou (First Lady), Heather O’Connor (Second Lady), Allison Waggener (Third Lady), Samuel Bowen (Nettuno), Rongjun Li (First Tenor), and Sung Shin (Second Tenor).

English

The Liberation of Ruggiero from the Island of Alcina by Caccini, From (2021/2021), Directed by Alan Mann,, Conductor Adrian Sylveen, Trinity On Main, New Britain, United States

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