Name: Alcina
Start: 2020-10-22
End: 2020-10-22
Location: Stadttheater Klagenfurt

Organization

Singer

Soprano

Kiandra Howarth

Alcina

Countertenor

Eléonore Pancrazi

Ruggiero

Tenor

Pablo Martinez

Oronte

Bass

Nicholas Crawley

Melissio

Conductor

Attilio Cremonesi

Stage director

Florentine Klepper

Set designer

Martina Segna

Costume designer

Adriane Westerbarkey

Chorus master

Günter Wallner

Dramaturge

Markus Hänsel

Contralto

Feride Büyükdenktas

Bradamante

Bryony Dwyer

Morgana

Stadttheater Klagenfurt

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Klagenfurt

Austria

Alcina Händel

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ALCINA
Dramma per musica in drei Akten von Georg Friedrich Händel / Libretto von einem unbekannten Autor nach Antonio Fanzaglias Textbuch zu Riccardo Broschis "L’isola di Alcina" (1728), nach Ludovico Ariostos "Orlando furioso" (1516)

Stadttheater Klagenfurt
Premiere 22. Oktober 2020

MUSIKALISCHE LEITUNG • Attilio Cremonesi
REGIE • Florentine Klepper
BÜHNE • Martina Segna
KOSTÜME • Adriane Westerbarkey
CHOREINSTUDIERUNG • Günter Wallner
DRAMATURGIE • Markus Hänsel

Alcina • Kiandra Howarth
Ruggiero • Éléonore Pancrazi
Morgana • Bryony Dwyer
Bradamante • Feride Büyükdenktas
Oronte • Pablo Martinez
Melisso • Nicholas Crawley

Basso Continuo
CEMBALO • Anna Fontana
VIOLONCELLO • Eva Simic-Nemeth, Wilhelm Pflegerl
KONTRABASS • Sebastian Stingl, Vincent Perrotin, Laszlo Lippay

Kärntner Sinfonieorchester
Chor des Stadttheaters Klagenfurt

TRAILER • Verena Schellander

ALCINA - Georg Friedrich Händel - Stadttheater Klagenfurt

The sorceress Alcina has built a place of refuge from the war raging in the world on her island. But the arrival of Bradamante, who wants to free her husband Ruggiero from Alcina's clutches, initiates the unmasking of the utopian paradise as a deceptive illusion.

With Alcina , George Frideric Handel composed his third, Orlando furioso , based on Ludovico Ariosto's fantastic Renaissance epic, in 1735(1516) based opera. Unlike Ariosto, whose world is presented in a clear division between good and evil, Handel takes an impartial view of life: there are actually no good or bad characters in his work. The composer even develops an understanding for the motivation of Alcina, who Ariosto portrays as a rejected figure – perhaps even particularly for her. Handel shows us the demonic destroyer as a deeply human person who is suddenly made vulnerable by love. She loses her magical energy and eternal youth. In his music, Handel combines sadness and cheerfulness, joy and pain in often light but also melancholic irony.

English

Alcina by Händel, Thu 22 Oct 2020, From (2020/2020), Directed by Florentine Klepper,, Conductor Attilio Cremonesi, Stadttheater Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria

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