Handel's Alcina
Francesco Micheli (stage director), Jonathan Cohen (conductor) — With Jane Archibald (Alcina), Beth Taylor (Bradamante), Samantha Hankey (Ruggiero)...
Casting
Francesco Micheli — Director de escena
Edoardo Sanchi — Escenógrafo
Alessio Rosati — Diseñador de vestuario
Mike Ashcroft — Coreógrafo
Bruno Poet — Iluminador
Beth Taylor — Bradamante
Alastair Miles — Melisso
Soraya Mafi — Morgana
Sobre el programa...
On an enchanted island outside the passage of time, the powerful sorceress Alcina reigns supreme. A master of illusions, she seduces the knights who land on her shores before transforming them—once their love has faded—into trees, rocks, or beasts, frozen for eternity. When the knight Ruggiero falls under her spell, Alcina believes that love might break the curse trapping her in a cycle of seduction and destruction for the first time. But Bradamante’s arrival and Ruggiero’s flight shake her power, revealing the fragility that lies behind her omnipotence.
In Handel’s final opera Alcina, magic serves as a mirror for a deeply moving exploration of love, illusion, and self-annihilation. A witch, woman, victim, and tormentor all at once, Alcina embodies one of opera’s most complex female characters. Making its Glyndebourne debut, Francesco Micheli’s sumptuous production magnifies this ambiguity, while Jonathan Cohen’s baton reveals the full emotional and dramatic richness of this work, in which only true love might offer redemption…
