Alcina

Alcina - Robert Carsen

• Conductor

  Thomas Hengelbrock; Iñaki Encina Oyón

• Music

  Georg Friedrich Haendel
  (1685-1759)

• 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

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.

Balthasar Neumann Ensemble
Choeurs de l’Opéra national de Paris

Alcina

Alcina - Robert Carsen

• Alcina

  Jeanine De Bique

• Ruggiero

  Gaëlle Arquez

• Morgana

  Sabine Devieilhe

• Bradamante

  Roxana Constantinescu

• Oronte

  Rupert Charlesworth

• Melisso

  Nicolas Courjal