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 ...

A cozy opera set in a vintage shop. Is this the antidote to what is collectively ailing us? Okay, “antidote” may be a strong word, but Alcina—a collaboration between Milwaukee Opera Theatre (MOT) and ...

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 ...

This is billed as Opera North’s first sustainable production, the costumes, furniture and props all second-hand. Designer Hannah Clark’s “Heaven on Earth” is little more than a patch of linoleum ...

How eactly did Milwaukee Opera Theatre come to be performing Handel's Baroque opera "Alcina" in the vintage shop Dandy? It began, MOT Producing Artistic Director Jill Anna Ponasik said in a phone ...

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 ...

In Alcina earthbound reality is hardly anywhere to be seen. We are on a magic island ruled by the enchantress of the title, who disposes of her many lovers by turning them into wild beasts or rocks, ...

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 ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — When the sorceress Alcina sets a spell in motion during the opera that bears her name, she entrancingly waves her wand over her forest of once-human trees; her imprisoned lover, ...

In the Oakland University School of Music, Theatre and Dance (SMTD), Oakland Opera students took George Frideric Handel’s ...

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 ...