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George Frideric Handel, Alcina, HWV 34

Overture

I: "Oh Dei! quivi non scorgo alcun sentiero!"

I: "O s'apre al riso"

I: "Questo è il cielo de' contenti"

I: "Ecco l'infido"

I: "Di', cor mio, quanto t'amai"

I: "Generosi guerrier"

I: "Chi m'insegna il caro padre?"

I: "Mi ravvisi"

I: "Di te mi rido"

I: "Qua dunque ne veniste"

I: "E gelosia"

I: "Io dunque"

I: "Semplicetto!"

I: "Ah, infedele, infedel!"

I: "Sì, son quella!"

I: "Se nemico mi fossi"

I: "La bocca vaga"

I: "Fuggi cor mio"

I: "Tornami a vagheggiar"

II: "Col celarvi a chi v'ama"

II: "Qual portento mi richiama"

II: "Ah! Bradamante"

II: "Pensa a chi geme d'amor piagata"

II: "Qual odio ingiusto contro me?"

II: "Vorrei vendicarmi"

II: "Chi scopre al mio pensiero"

II: "Mi lusinga il dolce affetto"

II: "Non scorgo nel tuo viso"

II: "Ama, sospira"

II: "Ama, sospira"

II: "Regina, io cerco in vano"

II: "Tra speme e timore"

II: "Mio bel tesoro"

II: "Regina, sei tradita"

II: "Ah! mio cor!"

II: "Eccomi a' piedi tuoi"

II: "Verdi prati"

II: "Ah! Ruggiero crudel"

II: "Ombre pallide"

III: Sinfonia

III: "Voglio amar e disamar"

III: "Credete al mio dolore"

III: "M'inganna, me n'avveggo"

III: "Un momento di contento"

III: "Un momento di contento"

III: "Molestissimo incontro!"

III: "Ma quando tornerai"

III: "Tutta d'armate squadre"

III: "All'alma fedel"

III: "Mi restano le lagrime"

III: "Già vicino è il momento"

III: "Barbara!"

III: "Le lusinghe, gl'inganni"

III: "Non è amor, nè gelosia"

III: "Ah! mio Ruggier, che tenti?"

III: Coro "Dall'orror di notte cieca"

Handel's Alcina

Pierre Audi (stage director), Christophe Rousset (conductor) — With Sandrine Piau (Alcina), Maite Beaumont (Ruggiero), Angelique Noldus (Bradamante)

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Cast

Pierre Audi — Stage director

Patrick Kinmonth — Set designer, costume designer

Matthew Richardson — Lighting designer

Sandrine Piau — Alcina

Maite Beaumont — Ruggiero

Angélique Noldus — Bradamante

Sabina Puértolas — Morgana

Program notes

The indisputable protagonist of Alcina is the exquisite music—in rapid succession and staggering quantity—written by Handel in 1735. Pierre Audi knows it; he strips the stage of ornament and artifice, allowing the singers to incarnate the actions and emotions described in the score. Mathew Richardson's subtle, precise lighting spotlights the period costumes, dressing the work up in 18th-century artistic splendor.

Beautiful sorceress Alcina reigns on her isle, bewitching all the men she desires and transforming them into animals or objects when she tires of them. Bradamante, fiancée of Ruggiero—Alcina's most recent victim—comes to rescue her beloved. But Alcina's sister Morgana, mistaking Bradamente for a man, falls in love with her, complicating her rescue plans...

With moving performances as actresses and singers of the highest level, Sandrine Piau, Maite Beaumont, Angélique Noldus, and Sabina Puértolas embody the wide emotional range of the work—anger and jealousy, terror and courage, love and compassion—amid the glorious soundtrack, conducted by the committed Christophe Rousset at the helm of his period instrument orchestra, Les Talens Lyriques.

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