Organization

Singer

Soprano

Jane Archibald

Alcina

Rowan Pierce

Oberto

Countertenor

Samantha Hankey

Ruggiero

Kayleigh Decker

Contralto

Avery Amereau

Bradamante

Tenor

Stuart Jackson

Oronte

Bass

Alastair Miles

Melissio

Lighting designer

Bruno Poet

Costume designer

Alessio Rosati

Set designer

Edoardo Sanchi

Choreographer

Mike Ashcroft

Ying Fang

Morgana

Svetlina Stoyanova

Beth Taylor

Stage director

Francesco Micheli

Conductor

Jonathan Cohen

Soraya Mafi

Orchestra

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Glyndebourne

Assistant Set Design

Chiara Taiocchi

Pianist

Tom Foster

Repetiteur

Italian

United Kingdom

Opera House

Glyndebourne Festival

Gardens

Alcina Händel

Public

English

Approved

Alexandra Coghlan explores the opera in depth, with a look at one of Handel’s most complex and compelling heroines, and meets director Francesco Micheli to h...

Alexandra Coghlan explores the opera in depth, with a look at one of Handel’s most complex and compelling heroines, and meets director Francesco Micheli to hear about his vision for the piece. Plus our former Music Librarian Ian Julier tells us more about Glyndebourne's history of Handel stagings.

Seductive enchantress Alcina can conjure anything she wants – anything, except love.

Alcina rules over an enchanted island, its trees, rocks and animals all the bewitched forms of her discarded lovers. But Ruggiero is different. Alcina has fallen in love with the handsome knight. Can love perform the ultimate enchantment and transform Alcina herself? Or, faced with her lover’s desertion, will she once again choose vengeance and violence?

A son searching for his father; a woman searching for her fiancé; a sorceress searching for truth: Handel’s last and greatest ‘magic’ opera is an exuberant fantasy full of illusion and wizardry, but it’s also a probing psychological portrait of love in all its forms. In Alcina herself Handel creates one of the most complex and compelling heroines of his career – at once witch and woman, villain and victim.

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Ensemble