Handel's Alcina / Monarda Arts ; Matthias Leutzendorff, director ; Adrian Noble, stage director.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Leutzendorff, Matthias, film director.

Noble, Adrian, 1950- stage director.

Harteros, Anja, singer.

Kasarova, Vesselina, singer.

Cangemi, Veronica, singer.

Hammarström, Kristina, singer.

Mühlbacher, Alois, singer.

Bruns, Benjamin, singer.

Plachetka, Adam, 1985- singer.

Minkowski, Marc, conductor.

Monarda Arts (Firm), production company.

Musiciens du Louvre, performer.

Wiener Staatsballett, performer.

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Operas.

Genre:

Operas.

Internet videos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (3 hr., 24 min., 30 sec.)) : sound, color

Other Title:

Alcina

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Monarda Arts, 2011.

Language Note:

Sung in Italian.

System Details:

digital

video file

Summary:

Experience director Adrian Noble's and conductor Marc Minkowski's acclaimed 2011 production of Handel's Alcina in the Wiener Staatsoper. Re-imagining the classic opera as a play-within-a-play, this Alcina is staged in late 18th century London by the famous British Duchess Georgiana Cavendish and her friends. A fascinating few hours of baroque delights! The story of Alcina unfolds on an enchanted island where Alcina, a powerful sorceress and her sister Morgana dwell. Many heroes have been lured to the magical domain of Alcina only to fall under her spell and be turned into rocks, streams, trees, and animals. Alcina's latest captive is the crusader Ruggiero. Ruggiero's fiancée Bradamante, disguised as a man, and Ruggiero's former tutor Melisso come in search of him. Alcina's sister Morgana soon becomes attracted to the disguised Bradamante. This causes her lover, Oronte, to become jealous. In the end, Ruggiero and Bradamante escape and destroy the powers of both Alcina and Morgana. Baroque operas make up the bread and butter of most opera houses today, but until November 2010, the Wiener Staatsoper had resisted them, with its last Baroque venture back in the 1960s. Enter their 2010-2011 production of Alcina, which boasted an all-star cast of Baroque specialists, a former director of the Royal Shakespeare Company Adrian Noble, the highly-acclaimed conductor Marc Minkowski and his Les Musiciens du Louvre Grenoble.

Participant:

Anja Harteros (Alcina) ; Vesselina Kasarova (Ruggiero) ; Veronica Cangemi (Morgana) ; Kristina Hammarström (Bradamante) ; Alois Mühlbacher (Oberto) ; Benjamin Bruns (Oronte) ; Adam Plachetka (Melisso) ; Wiener Staatsballett ; Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble ; Marc Minkowski, conductor.

Notes:

Vendor-supplied metadata.

Contains:

Container of: Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759. Alcina.

OCLC:

1045797286

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.