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| | Handel - Alcina / Fleming, Graham, Dessay, Kuhlmann, Robinson, Naouri, Lascarro, Les Arts Florissants, Christie : Music |
 | | Alcina: Atto II, Scena I: Aria - Pensa a chi geme d´amor (Melissa). | | | Alcina: Atto II, Scena I: Recitativo - Taci, taci, codardo (Melissa) - Arioso - Qual portento mi richiama (Ruggiero). | | | This Audio CD Music item from Erato was reviewed on 9-Oct-2005. |
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| | Bulfinch's Mythology, Legends of Charlemagne, Chapter 9: Astolpho and the Enchantress |
| | He then selected a horse from the stables of Alcina, without exciting her suspicions; but he left the Hippogriff, by the advice of Melissa, who promised to take him in charge, and train him to a more manageable state. | | | It was needless for Melissa to say more. | | | At the sight of Melissa, joy lighted up the countenance of Bradamante, and hope animated her breast. |
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| | 'Alcina' goes every witch way / S.F. Opera makes some sublime music on an overly busy stage |
| | One is a musical rendition of almost unparalleled depth and sublimity, the other a hyperactive stage play based on the libretto of Handel's opera. | | | Handel's opera is superbly represented on disc, by William Christie's vivid and stately recording (Erato), recorded live at the Paris Opera in 1999. | | | Mezzo-soprano Sarah Castle sang the part of Oberto, a young man whose father is among Alcina's victims. |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/11/21/DD151172.DTL
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Handel: Alcina [1999]: DVD |
| | On the DVD: Alcina comes to disc with an anamorphically enhanced 16:9 picture that is clear and detailed, while the PCM stereo audio is natural and is recorded with good presence. | | | A drama in music which is taken from the sixth and seventh cantos of the epic poem by Ariosto. | | | Lots of music is cut, and several da capo arias feature only the A section. |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005YTLG
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| | Among the particular pleasures of the Bloomington Early Music Festival's production of Alcina, conducted by Stanley Ritchie, was the variety and beauty of the mix of the vocals and the orchestra. | | | Bloomington Music Works offers a solidly produced, fresh feeling production of this minor classic. | | | Alcina's enchanted beau, Ruggiero, was sung by Jessica Riley. |
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http://www.indiana.edu/~wfiu/walker-mayaug00.htm
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| | A peek at a timeless tale / Poor 'Alcina' DVD offers taste of Opera program |
| | At least on DVD, this "Alcina" is an unintentional parody of the European postwar avant-garde. | | | She is sung by Catriona Smith, who will reprise the role in San Francisco. | | | The title character is a powerful sorceress, a woman who can make just about anything happen on her enchanted island except make the man she loves return her passion. |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/08/18/PK80162.DTL&type=printable
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| | OperaWorld.com's Opera Insights: Alcina |
| | In the trio "Non è amor," the all-but defeated Alcina shares similar musical material with the near-triumphant Ruggiero and Bradamante, but Handel gives her deceptive phrases an upward turn, while the reunited lovers command her silence with more solid descending melodies. | | | Ruggiero crudel!," provides an opera seria equivalent of a mad scene, with jagged vocal leaps and accompaniment that is by turns violent and absent. | | | Among the highlights are Morgana's seductive "Tornami a vagheggiar." As always, Handel's music is deftly direct in expressing the sentiment, even if the specifics of the situation may be complicated (Alcina's sister/companion Morgana is smitten with the visiting warrior "Ricciardo," who is actually Ruggiero's lover Bradamante in disguise). |
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http://www.operaworld.com/special/alcina1.shtml
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| | classical music - andante - handel's alcina at the budapest spring festival |
| | But the sludge on stage is worth wading through for the glorious Catherine Naglestad, whose Alcina is one of the most carefully wrought pieces of singing to be heard on any stage these days. | | | classical music - andante - handel's alcina at the budapest spring festival | | | Naglestad's lush voice has a dusky, reedy quality — a natural sound for producing long lines of aching lyricism — but its size and weight make it all the more surprising that she's equally capable of effortless trills and unearthly sustained pianissimo phrases worthy of Montserrat Caballé in her prime. |
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http://www.andante.com/article/article.cfm?id=16617
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| | Boston.com / A&E / Music / Performers make 'Alcina' enchanting |
| | The performance was lively, well-played and well-sung, and it's hard to imagine how any three-hour stretch of music could be more varied and more spellbinding. | | | Boston.com / AandE / Music / Performers make 'Alcina' enchanting | | | "Alcina" is one of four Handel opera's based on Ariosto's romantic epic, "Orlando Furioso." Alcina is a sorceress who turns her conquests into beasts and stones. |
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http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2003/10/20/performers_make_alcina_enchanting
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| | Silvan v. Alcina (01/14/2005) sp-5858 |
| | Alcina gave notice that he wished to move back into the home, but Silvan refused to leave. | | | They decided to settle in Willow and bought their home with funds from Silvans mother. | | | Silvan told the trial court that she wanted the children to be educated in Phoenix and claimed that Alcina would not be a good parent on his own because he had rarely taken care of the children. |
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http://www.touchngo.com/sp/html/sp-5858.htm
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| | Jedi Council Forums - ~*~In The Presence Of Evil~*~ |
| | The pain suddenly stopped and Alcina was left looking at the back of the throne. | | | Looking at the ships made her wonder what life was like beyond Imperial City. | | | Alcina lay in her bed, staring at the blackness of her ceiling. |
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| | Threepenny: Lesser, Sorcery |
| | Toward the end of the final act, she leaves the stage while her traitorous lover Ruggiero is singing an intensely affecting aria and comes back on wearing a different outfit, all within the compass of a single song. | | | They have a brief love scene, but it compares badly to Ruggiero’s earlier love scenes with Alcina, containing as it does far more repentance than eros. | | | This doubleness is inherent in the music (almost all of Alcina’s best singing occurs in the second half, where she has one astounding aria after another), but it has been brought out in this production by the staging, and particularly by the set. |
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http://www.threepennyreview.com/samples/lesser_sp03.html
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| | My new host is Typepad, mainly because their photo albums give me the opportunity to flaunt the more visually-orientated, flamboyant side of my nature. | | | Don’t get too excited — I’ll be showcasing my garden, mountain and (hopefully) autumn porn, together with the Artist’s lovely drawings of me. As for the rest of it — you can expect to be regaled with further accounts of Mountain Man and my boudoir and other exploits together with the more mundane. | | | I’ll be zipping Alcina up and stowing her securely away in the near future, so please update your links/bookmarks. |
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http://alcina.diary-x.com
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| | Zankel Hall - Alcina - New York Classical Music Review |
| | Housewarming: John Adams conducts the whimsically named Zankel Band in the opening concert at Zankel Hall. | | | Zankel Hall - Alcina - New York Classical Music Review | | | Christine Goerke is one of our brightest young lyric sopranos, and her past work, in Handel particularly, has been brilliantly on the mark. |
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http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/arts/music/classical/reviews/n_9246
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| | Endless... Immortal... Alcina |
| | Her dedication to the the platinum, the diamonds and the everlasting INFINITY is without question. | | | But Melissa persisted and put the ring on his finger, transforming him to his old self and clearing his eyes to see the enchantment. | | | He decided to leave Alcina and her Island of illusion and while huntsmen were sent for Rogero and Alcina came out to pursue him, her enemy Melissa came to her home and caused great damage. |
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http://members.aol.com/alcina2edg
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| | Alcina - George Frideric Handel |
| | Handel's music, written for star voices of his time, is formidably challenging, exquisite melodies with long phrasing requiring extraordinary breath control and coloratura turns requiring virtuoso vocal dexterity. | | | They weave in and out of the action in graceful patterns sometimes resembling 18th century dances, at once lending an element of contemporary fantasy and a link back to the opera's historical roots. | | | SFO focused with great seriousness on the psychology and motivations of the various lovers, playing down elements of fantasy and magic, a somewhat Teutonically doom-and-gloom interpretation. |
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http://www.culturevulture.net/Opera/Alcina.htm
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| | Boston.com / A&E / Theater/Arts / Boston Baroque leader believes 'Alcina' will prove to be magical |
| | She has wild and fast music, but most of it is introspective; she's a very complicated character." | | | Now the full liturgy with Communion will not be lengthened by musical works of sometimes substantial duration; the Bach cantatas will still be heard in the liturgical context for which they were written. | | | Martin Pearlman, who leads Boston Baroque in two performances of "Alcina" (tonight and tomorrow at 7:30 in Jordan Hall), says, "What attracted me was the music -- I didn't realize at first we would be presenting the local premiere. |
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http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2003/10/17/boston_baroque_leader_believes_alcina_will_prove_to_be_magical
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| | Handel, ‘Alcina,’ The Early Opera Company, Wigmore Hall, Friday July 5th 2002. (ME) |
| | Louise Mott’s Ruggiero was similarly lyrical of tone, and to my ears she did not sound suitable for the part, which needs a richer timbre in the manner of a Sarah Connolly, but she too sang and acted with real commitment, producing a lovely ‘Verdi Prati’ with elegant shaping of the phrases. | | | If there were longueurs during the evening, they were principally the result of having three very similar voices in the parts of Alcina, Ruggiero and Morgana, with only Diana Moore’s vivid Bradamante sounding exactly right for her part. | | | Ms Lawson knows how to work an audience, and by the end of ‘Tornami a vagheggiar’ she had most of the front rows eating out of her hand, and despite a few undisciplined and squally notes high up, she was entirely convincing. |
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http://www.musicweb-international.com/SandH/2002/July02/alcina.htm
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| | Handel and Italian Opera |
| | Saturday Afternoon at the Opera of CBC Radio Two and Les Violons du Roy presents a concert version of Alcina. | | | Handel put the final touches to Alcina a mere week before its premiere at Covent Garden on 16 April, 1735. | | | In 1928, Alcina was performed in Leipzig, followed 31 years later by its definitive revival with the resounding success of the 1957 London production, in which Joan Sutherland held the role of the sorceress. |
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| | Opera~Opera. Plot Summaries. H. |
| | They meet Morgana, Alcina's sister, who falls in love with the disguised Bradamante and promises to take them to Alcina. | | | Alcina laments Ruggiero's jealousy, hoping that their love will soon be as untroubled as before. | | | Alcina upbraids Ruggiero for trying to leave her. |
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| | Alcina Music CDs at Songsearch.com |
| | Alcina Music CDs, DVD Movies, Music Videos, Songs, and Song Titles | | | We have over a million items listed from all over the globe. | | | Try the new search options on the left navigation bar including the new Category / Genre search. |
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| | Alcina |
| | The original was 42’ but I was never really happy with it because I wanted just a bit more elbow room inside. | | | ALCINA’s 10’ of floor space in the wheelhouse is very spacious and gives a wonderful engineroom with lots of space to get to the engine. | | | She started out as a spec design, based along my ideas of what I would like to own. |
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| | But then we get to the real stuff for which Handel, with Connolly’s help on this disc, is at last gaining acknowledgment: the dramatic scena, a world away from the formal delights of the da capo aria. | | | ‘Verdi prati’ (Alcina) has become a party piece, which is what it is here. | | | Perhaps Connolly hasn’t the finest trill, a decoration that is essential when singing Handel, but she uses to perfection her ability to make runs seem effortlessness. |
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http://gfhandel.org/reviews/coroconnolly.htm
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| | Alcina @ The Coliseum |
| | Swede Charlotte Hellekant also makes a welcome ENO debut as Bradamante, the spurned lover whose search for the errant Ruggiero breaks Alcina's spell. | | | Lisa Milne is in fabulous voice as Alcina, imperious when crossed and extraordinarily moving as her magic begins to fail her and she loses her lover, Ruggiero. | | | Not that there wasn't some good singing last time round - but the current cast is so superb, and the sound coaxed from the baroque orchestra by Richard Hickox so perfectly balanced, that the result is enchanting. |
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| | There is also a delightful section in which the cast are joined on stage by two French horn players who add a wonderful extra colour to the sound of the orchestra. | | | In this respect the Stuttgart State Opera has an excellent emsemble, and in Catherine Nagelstad, playing the lead, an occasionally astonishing voice. | | | He does so by mimicking Alcina, stripping off and flirting with Ruggerio. |
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http://www.culturewars.org.uk/2000-08/music/alcina.htm
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| | New York City Opera - Alcina |
| | Strangely, the dancing trees (Choreographer Sean Curran's representation of Alcina's ex-lovers) actually added flash to this most pallid production. | | | Now that NYCO has awakened Alcina from a fifty-year slumber, we can all be happy to put it right back to sleep to be rediscovered in another fifty years without feeling any loss whatsoever. | | | Still, the New York City Opera's current Handel opera revival proves that his works deserve a dusting off every fifty years or so, not only to present some of these gorgeous arias, but to remind us of a musical time in which rapid roulades and trills formed the basis of operatic style. |
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http://www.robertaonthearts.com/id58.html
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| | Alcina Debuts Wednesday, March 12 |
| | The performance, with its richly expansive music and fantastical mysticism, will continue Friday, March 14, and Saturday, March 15, at 8 p.m., and will have its final run Sunday, March 16, with a 2 p.m. | | | Alcina, George Frederick Handel's three-act opera, will debut Wednesday, March 12, at 8 p.m., in Hall Auditorium. | | | Visit Alcina's Enchanted Island Off the Coast of Oberlin For Romance, Adventure, and a New Lease on Life |
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| | Sheet Music publication - Handel Alcina 1735 Ms |
| | Sheet Music publication - Handel Alcina 1735 Ms | | | This title ships direct from the publisher - normally within 4 working days. | | | > Handel Alcina 1735 Ms Handel Alcina 1735 Ms Composer: George Frideric Handel |
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| | 'Alcina' @ The Coliseum, London |
| | Alcina's sister Morgana is the original girl who wants to have fun, in a shocking pink distressed crinoline, through which her ample charms are all too obvious. | | | During that time we are royally entertained with exquisite singing from Alcina (Joan Rodgers), Morgana (Lisa Milne fulfilling her promise from earlier Handel roles such as Rodelinda) and Ruggiero (a suitably tall Sarah Connolly), among others in a fine cast. | | | Alcina is a sorceress who shipwrecks sailors on her island so that she can take her pick of fresh lovers every so often. |
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http://www.musicomh.com/opera/alcina.htm
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| | Guardian Unlimited Arts reviews Alcina |
| | He equates Alcina's sorcery with music, turning the enchanted urn that is the source of her power into a bust of Handel, borne on stage by her fetishistically attired attendants, over whose orgies it then presides. | | | Alcina is played by Lisa Milne; flame-haired and Rubens-esque, she looks fantastic, is vocally beautiful and technically staggering, though there is a chastity in the tone that sometimes is less than ideal. | | | Alcina's kingdom is subsequently seen as a world of operatic illusion: her Palladian villa proves to be nothing more than a stage set, while she herself is a self-dramatising diva playing to the gallery. |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/reviews/story/0,11712,939282,00.html
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| | Alcina - opera by Georg Friedrich Handel |
| | Alcina was composed in the thirties of the 18 | | | Having lost the moral support of people close to the Crown he had to struggle with financial difficulties that mainly were due to certain circles boycotting the distinguished composer. | | | The first night of Alcina was on 16 April 1735 in the London Covent Garden Theatre (Handel was working in John Rich's newly built theatre since his coercive leave from The Haymarket Theatre). |
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| | Alcina - definition of Alcina in Encyclopedia |
| | The Australian soprano Joan Sutherland sang the role in a production by Franco Zeffirelli in which she made her debut at La Fenice in February 1960 and at the Dallas Opera in November of that year. | | | The plot of Alcina concerns the sixth and seventh cantos of Orlando furioso, which tell of a knight, Ruggiero, enslaved by the sorceress Alcina. | | | Like Handel's other works in the opera seria genre, Alcina fell into obscurity; after a revival in Brunswick in 1738 it was not performed again until a production in Leipzig in 1928. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Alcina
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| | Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music |
| | By eliminating dance sequences (which Handel, too, cut after a while), unnecessary recitative, a few repeats in arias and a sub-plot with a character which Handel only added for a particularly fine treble, the opera comes in at a very manageable 2 ½ hours of music. | | | Alcina (1735) was Handel’s last successful Italian opera for England, and, at least since its revival in 1957 in London for soprano Joan Sutherland and its subsequent recording, has become one of his most popular, second only to Giulio Cesare. | | | Ruggiero’s fiancée, Bradamante, and her guardian, Melisso, are shipwrecked on the island, and disguised as her own brother Ricciardo, Bradamante sets out to rescue Ruggiero. |
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http://www.classicstoday.com/Classics/ConcertReview_ASPFiles/ViewConcertReview.asp?Action=User&ID=343
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| | Alcina Pictures - About |
| | Alcina is able to access a variety of sources of funding in Canada and has established relationships with funding agencies, broadcasters, and channels of distribution across the Canadian landscape. | | | In 2003, Alcina branched into domestic distribution with REACTION RELEASING, a specialized distributor that acquires, markets and distributes films and soundtracks in Canada. | | | Part of the Canadian independent community, Alcina prides itself on working with today's new talent and voices of both Canadian and International cinema. |
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http://www.alcinapictures.com/about.htm
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| | The Breeze: Style |
| | Alcina's friend, Monica (senior Rasheeda Miller) — is faithful and cheery, but she is concealing a secret that reveals itself exactly when it must. | | | This feels exactly right for human memory — as time passes, the mind is less concerned with what happened than how it felt like when it happened — and the shadows and lights hit this note wonderfully. | | | Special recognition should be given as well to Bauder, who brings the character of Alcina to life. |
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http://www.thebreeze.org/archives/9.18.03/style/style2.shtml
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| | Intersections: Baylans, Asogs, Transvestism, and Sodomy: Gender, Sexuality and the Sacred in Early Colonial Philippines |
| | This manuscript, the 'Bolinao Manuscript,'[26] was collated on the orders of Archbishop Felipe Pardo with the express purpose of eliminating Animist practice from the Zambales district. | | | They include the Jesuit, Alcina's 1668 History of the Bisayan Islands,[24] written during his 35 years of missionary activity during which he studied Visayan customs. | | | Indeed, the influence of Catholicism is abundantly apparent as Alcina stresses his subject's observance of Catholic custom by stating that he had 'heard' the man's confession at various times. |
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http://wwwsshe.murdoch.edu.au/intersections/issue2/carolyn2.html
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| | Handel - Alcina Movie: Handel - Alcina DVD is available from Bestprices.com |
| | Handel's most popular stage work, ALCINA is a Baroque fantasy about the havoc Alcina, a sorceress, wreaks upon the lives of, among others, Ruggerio and Bradamante, two lovers who have wandered into her enchanted isle. | | | Handel - Alcina Movie: Handel - Alcina DVD is available from Bestprices.com | | | This Stuttgart State Opera production of Handel's opera is visually mesmerizing, intensely dramatic, and wonderfully vocalized. |
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http://www.bestprices.com/cgi-bin/vlink/807280033991BT
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| | Oberlin Theater News: Dance Performance |
| | Since Alcina's 1735 premiere at Covent Garden, the richly expansive music, emotional range and power, and fantastical mysticism of this opera have brought it attention as one of Handel's greatest works. | | | Alcina's sister Morgana is attracted to the disguised Bradamante, to the jealousy of her lover Oronte. | | | Located in the lobby of Hall Auditorium, 67 N. Main St. between the Oberlin Inn and the Allen Art Museum. |
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| | Alaska's World - News |
| | Wearing bib No. 30, Alcina is competing in his fourth Iditarod. | | | Alcina’s own resume includes a remarkable 17th finish last last year. | | | Juan Alcina puts booties on his dog's feet just prior to the start of the Iditarod ast Saturday |
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http://www.alaskasworld.com/NEWS/2001/03/02_JuanAlcina.asp
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| | St. Lucia Artists and Workshops |
| | Alcina Nolley captured the light and shadow of the ruins. | | | You can see more of Alcina's work at | | | Lunch was at the beautiful Anse Chastanet, where Mary Weber gave us a tour of the st. lucian art at their Art Gallery. |
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http://artworkshops.homestead.com/stlucia2004.html
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| | Alcina Tickets - Alcina |
| | Alcina is one of the most exciting thing to do in Alcina. | | | Alcina tickets are available along with other concerts, sports, and theatre. | | | Need concerts tickets e-mail Alcina tickets are the best. |
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http://www.southerntickets.net/alcina.htm
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| | Handel, ‘Alcina,’ English National Opera, London Coliseum, Saturday April 26th 2003 (ME) |
| | She did sing beautifully, but in a tone of general overall creaminess which hardly suggested Alcina’s divided soul. | | | However, although the production itself has hardly altered, there has been a sad loss on stage, and that is in the singing, which, at least on this showing, was worryingly poor in quality, with very few exceptions. | | | Ms Meek’s person is gentle and attractive but her voice is so tiny that it simply cannot command a house of this size: she sang a very small-scale, sweetly phrased ‘Verdi Prati’ but overall her characterization and singing were muted and not at the level one expects of Handel singing in this house. |
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http://www.musicweb-international.com/SandH/2003/Apr03/alcina264.htm
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| | DONA ALCINA, Goa, India - Discount Hotel Reservations |
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| | Alcina |
| | This quest takes her to an island ruled over by the sorceress Alcina. | | | Bradamante has gone off in quest of her fiancé Ruggiero. | | | Stage director Christof Loy, whose production of Händel's Saul in Munich had the international opera world craving for even more Händel, has scored a major triumph for baroque opera in our own time with this staging. |
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| | PlaybillArts: Features: The Uses of Enchantment |
| | Worse still, the crafty sorceress falls sincerely in love with the knight she has enchanted, and not even her own magic can save her. | | | At the poem's center (Cantos XXIII-XXIV), Orlando descends into bestial madness amidst a whirlwind of allusions to virtually the entire European literary canon, including ancient and vernacular lyric poetry, drama, pastoral, and the Bible. | | | Now little known in the English-speaking world, Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533) was arguably the greatest poet of his age, and his 46-canto epic Orlando furioso (Mad Roland, 1532) was the most celebrated literary work of its era. |
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| | Knights at the Opera, Part 12 - Sixteenth-Century Epic Poetry |
| | Bradamante, fiancée of the still-human but otherwise bewitched knight Ruggiero, disguises herself as a man and sets out in search of her lover. | | | Coincidentally, her boat becomes shipwrecked upon Alcina’s very island, where not only does Alcina’s daffy sister, Morgana, fall in love with Bradamante, not knowing she is really a woman; but her own spellbound fiancé mistakenly believes she (in male disguise) is a rival to his romance with the enchantress. | | | These dilemmas are eventually resolved, Alcina stripped of her powers, and all the transformed knights returned to human form. |
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http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/opera/87059
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| | Naxos.com, Your World of Classical Music |
| | This wonderful epic poem, which takes liberties with customary images from the age of knights and chivalry, provided a model over several hundred years for the heroic-comic narrative verse genre. | | | Despite adverse circumstances at the time of its production, few of Handel's stage works were performed more often or gained more acclaim than Alcina. | | | A 'drama per musica' in three acts, Alcina is taken from the sixth and seventh cantos of Orlando furioso. |
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http://www.naxos.com/mainsite/NaxosCat/Naxos_Cat.asp?item_code=100338
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| | Tessitura : G4 to G5 Synopsis : Ruggiero has been captured by Alcina and bespelled by Alcina to be in love with Alcina and think that his real enemy is actually his fiancee Bradamante. | | | Bradamente, in disguise, tries to show him his mistake, but Ruggiero only runs off. | | | Alcina then enters and declares that she will keep Ruggiero under her power. |
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http://www.aria-database.com/cgibin/aria-search.pl?1053a
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| | News - Alcina, Information, Alcina Tickets |
| | The other, Alcina, is a perfect example of what a thinking director can achieve by the subtle power of suggestion. | | | No, wait: He didn't drown, he was saved by his lieutenant, who is awarded the succession. | | | Ticketbulldog.com - Alcina tickets Buy Alcina tickets - Find premium tickets online to see Alcina tickets on tour. |
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