In Handel Opera, Everyone But Alcina Is Looking for True Love

By Beck Feibelman When Georg Friedrich Händel’s Alcina premiered in London in 1735, it was a triumphant success. Three centuries later, to hear the voluptuous beauty and drama of the opera’s music is to understand why. Based on renaissance poet Ludovico Ariosto’s epic Orlando furioso, a source for numerous operas by various baroque composers, Alcina […]

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