Love triangles spark many a drama, but Pittsburgh Opera’s next production features what its stage director calls a “love pentagram.” The intricacies of the relationships seem fitting for the ornate ...

Ah, the opera. It is an otherworldly experience to sit in a hushed, dimly lit theater, gazing at the stage as a hidden orchestra strikes the first stirring chord. The drama is also a cathartic ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Alcina is a Baroque masterpiece by George Frideric Handel. The title character, ...

A baroque-style opera about a lovelorn sorceress, staged in a local vintage shop—that's Alcina, a collaboration between Milwaukee Opera Theatre and Early Music Now. Incredibly intrigued by this ...

Eventually the charm of the personalities and the consistency of the staging win over, but it does show how much a conductor’s pacing matters (and probably how the bite of authentic instruments helps ...

The IU Jacobs School of Music Opera and Ballet Theater has now demonstrated its excellence in baroque opera with a stunning production of “Alcina,” which premiered Feb. 7-8. George Frideric Handel’s ...

What a triumph: Seattle Opera conclusively proved that it can handle Handel, with a superb new staging of the composer’s 1735 opera “Alcina,” running through Oct. 28. Rarely do operagoers get to savor ...

Oh, Tim Albery, Oh Opera North – you iconoclastic devils! A production dependent almost entirely on a vibrant young cast and an orchestra under the direction of an inspiring Handelian, with nothing at ...

On Thursday night, I was treated to Tim Albery's new production of Handel’s Alcina for Opera North which opened for the first time last month in Leeds. Just over two years on from the UK's first ...