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2021 / AROP evening / Opera
30 Nov.

Alcina

    Palais Garnier

    19h30

    Duration
    3h40

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  • 1st part
    19h30
  • Intermission cocktail
    20h25
  • 2nd part
    20h45
  • Intermission cocktail
    21h55
  • 3rd part
    22h15
  • End of the performance
    23h10

The history of opera has never ceased to be haunted by temptresses bewitching men. Alcina is no exception: she seduces her victims to the point where they forget their own homeland. Is it a risk of perverted love or the delights of unbridled passion? Beyond the supernatural, Handel’s stroke of genius was to portray Alcina as a woman who suffers: profoundly human and touching. The song of the vanquished sorceress awakens a strange compassion within us. Robert Carsen, whose production brought the work into the Paris Opera’s repertoire, plays with immensesubtlety on this ambiguity and the chiaroscuro subtlety on this ambiguity and the chiaroscuro of emotions and hidden desires.

Alcina

Alcina - Robert Carsen

  • Music

    Georg Friedrich Haendel
    (1685-1759)

  • Conductor
    Thomas Hengelbrock
  • Conductor
    Iñaki Encina Oyón

  • Libretto

    Anonyme
    (adapté de l’opéra de Riccardo Broschi L’Isola di Alcina)

  • Director

    Robert Carsen

  • Revival director

    Christophe Gayral

  • Set design, Costume design

    Tobias Hoheisel

  • Lighting design

    Jean Kalman

  • Choreography

    Philippe Giraudeau

  • Dramaturgy

    Ian Burton

  • Chorus master

    Alessandro Di Stefano

Cast

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Jeanine De
Bique

Alcina

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Gaëlle
Arquez

Ruggiero

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Sabine
Devieilhe

Morgana

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Roxana
Constantinescu

Bradamante

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Rupert
Charlesworth

Oronte

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Nicolas
Courjal

Melisso

Balthasar Neumann Ensemble
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