Alcina by Händel, ti 13 kesä 2017, Alkaen (2017/2017), Ohjannut Lydia Steier, Musiikinjohto Andrea Marcon, Theater Basel, Basel, Switzerland

The sorceress Alcina rules her island and has made love her slave. Men who stray to her are transformed into animals after brief acts of love. Alcina's power begins to falter when the sorceress falls in love with Ruggiero. He is afflicted by the magical power of love until his fiancee Bradamante appears disguised as a man to free him from the seductive clutches of Alcina... The longing for true love and the exotic other are the themes of Handel's opera «Alcina ». The director Lydia Steier has conjured up an opulent and imaginative world on the stage of the Theater Basel, supported not least by the colourful, elaborately designed costumes by Gianluca Falaschi. The internationally acclaimed countertenor Vince Yi will be on stage as Ruggiero for the first time. The musical direction is in the hands of the baroque specialist Andrea Marcon. With the kind support of the Foundation for the Promotion of Basel Theater