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 ...

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 ...

Handel’s opera is full of glorious music but its improbable plot makes it difficult to stage; Tim Albery’s intelligent production only fitfully succeeds Few will challenge Alcina’s claims to contain ...

Designer Hannah Clark’s “Heaven on Earth” is little more than a patch of linoleum littered with scruffy office chairs and the characters are in modern dress, their mismatched outfits seemingly sourced ...

Handel's magical tale has been given a lively makeover, while Malakai M Bayoh enraptured the entire audience (with just one sour exception) Telegraph Opera Critic, Nicholas Kenyon, is an author and ...

Alcina is a sorceress seeking love, when Ruggiero arrives on her magic island she charms him into adoring her without measure In the Israeli Opera rehearsal room, soprano Yael Levita (Alcina) and ...

For its annual Thanksgiving weekend chamber opera, Boston Early Music Festival this year presented a piece forged in the crucible of opera: Francesca Caccini’s 1625 “La liberazione di Ruggiero ...

Jane Archibald rises to the challenge as nightclub proprietor Alcina, as this lavish, campy production – with punchy playing by the OAE – transports the action to a 1960s Italian metropolis Theatrical ...

When the curtain came down on the first night of the Royal Opera’s fantastical new staging of Alcina, I was of the opinion that every opera production from now on should contain an angry, dancing ...

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 ...