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ALCINA
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
(1685 Halle, Germany - 1759 London, England)
(In Italian)
Alcina, the beautiful, powerful and malevolent sorceress who turns her cast off lovers into wild beasts, loses her magical powers when she fails passionately, helplessly in love.
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| May 3, Sun. |
2:00 PM |
Legion of Honor |
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ROLES
| Characters |
Voice |
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| Alcina, a sorceress |
Soprano |
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| Morgana, her sister |
Soprano |
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| Oberto, a boy searching for his father |
Soprano |
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| Ruggiero, a knight |
Mezzo-Soprano |
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| Bradamante, in love with him |
Contralto |
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| Oronte, lover of Morgana |
Tenor |
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| Melisso, former tutor of Ruggiero |
Bass |
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One of Handel's magic operas. Magical in every sense of the word. The story of Alcina, the beautiful and malevolent sorceress, absolute ruler of an island where enchantment abounds, passionate but fickle, who turns her legions of cast off lovers into wild beasts, the less fortunate ones into stones. But she loses her superhuman powers when she herself falls truly in love and becomes simply a vulnerable woman in despair.
The successive stages of her own transformation are marked by one glorious aria after another. Certainly one of Handel's greatest, most beautiful, most moving operas, it even has a generous element of comedy.
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