Alcina at Grand Théâtre de Genève

The Opéra des Nations, with its wooden structure and intimate setting, is ideally suited to the performance of works from the Baroque period, of which we will be staging more over the next seasons. And what better to kick off than one of Handel’s most successful operas, Alcina? On her island, the enchantress Alcina uses her magic powers to seduce Crusader knights before turning them into stone or changing them into animals. As in Orlando and Ariodante, Handel takes his subject from Ludovico Ariosto’s Renaissance epic, Orlando furioso, a poem that inspired many an 18th century composer. In his third “magic” opera, wanton witchcraft and intertwining passions are the obstacles that Bradamante must face, in order to save her lover Ruggiero from the spell cast by the sorceress Alcina. And now you too can succumb to the enchantment of one of Handel’s most musically charming operas!