Ruggiero has fallen for Alcina, who is said to possess magical powers and to transform lovers on her island into animals, springs and rocks. Ruggiero's fiancée Bradamante invades Alcina's kingdom disguised as a man and tries to recapture Ruggiero and destroy Alcina's power.
Music director
Gernot Sahler
Stage director
Alexander von Pfeil
Stage & Costumes
Eric Droin & Anna Brandstätter
Music
Chamber orchestra of the University Mozarteum
With this magic opera in 1735, Handel once again builds on his earlier triumphs in London. The libretto is borrowed from the crusader epic "Orlando furioso" by Ariost and revolves around the Circe myth, also already worked on by Homer, in which stranded heroes are first made happy with love by a sorceress and then transformed into animals. "I have the impression that the strictly emblematic characteristics of the baroque dramaturgy give way in "Alcina" in favor of a dramatic meaningfulness. As far as the genre is concerned, Handel combines this approach, which is modern for us, with a recourse: he turns again to the magic theme, which was almost frowned upon. This allows him to break open the canon, to give space to the irrational, the fantastic and the abysmal, the despair. The piece is about doubt in the world, about the insolubility of things. For this deeply melancholic approach Handel finds again and again new forms of expression - he leaves the terrain of predictability.... " (Alexander von Pfeil)
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9. December 2017, 17.00
max Schlereth Hall
ALCINA: Ayse Senogul, Ezgi Güngör MORGANA: Himani Grundström, Laura Incko RUGGIERO: Ines Constantino, Katrin Heles OBERTO: Anne Reich, Sejin Park ORONTE: Santiago Sanchez, Nuttaporn Thammathi BRADAMANTE: Neelam Brader, Melissa Zgouridi, Ekaterina Bocharova (St.Af.) MELISSO: Daniel Weiler, Jakob Mitterrutzner
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