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Love triangles spark many a drama, but Pittsburgh Opera’s next production features what its stage director calls a “love pentagram.” The intricacies of the relationships seem fitting for the ornate ...
For its annual Thanksgiving weekend chamber opera, Boston Early Music Festival this year presented a piece forged in the crucible of opera: Francesca Caccini’s 1625 “La liberazione di Ruggiero ...
Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. George Frideric Handel composed the opera seria, ALCINA, for a 1735 ...
Ah, the opera. It is an otherworldly experience to sit in a hushed, dimly lit theater, gazing at the stage as a hidden orchestra strikes the first stirring chord. The drama is also a cathartic ...
How eactly did Milwaukee Opera Theatre come to be performing Handel's Baroque opera "Alcina" in the vintage shop Dandy? It began, MOT Producing Artistic Director Jill Anna Ponasik said in a phone ...
This is billed as Opera North’s first sustainable production, the costumes, furniture and props all second-hand. Designer Hannah Clark’s “Heaven on Earth” is little more than a patch of linoleum ...
Since 1968, Fargo-Moorhead Opera has entertained community members of all ages and backgrounds with high-quality opera productions. Now, as its 50th anniversary draws near, F-M Opera is venturing in a ...
What a triumph: Seattle Opera conclusively proved that it can handle Handel, with a superb new staging of the composer’s 1735 opera “Alcina,” running through Oct. 28. Rarely do operagoers get to savor ...
In Handel’s gloriously tuneful opera Alcina the eponymous enchantress presides over a realm of hedonism in which former lovers have been turned into wild beasts. Richard Jones’s endlessly inventive ...
The evil spirit of Handel’s enchantress Alcina evidently infected one audience member at Tuesday’s premiere of this new production. The young Malakai M Bayoh, making his debut in the role of the boy ...
We live in an era of deception. As if Facebook hadn’t already offered reason to fret over the amplification of fake news, now comes the prospect of an enchanted digital island, a so-called metaverse, ...