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 ...

Love triangles spark many a drama, but Pittsburgh Opera’s next production features what its stage director calls a “love pentagram.” The intricacies of the relationships seem fitting for the ornate ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In Handel’s gloriously tuneful opera Alcina the eponymous enchantress presides over a realm of hedonism in which former lovers have been turned into wild beasts. Richard Jones’s endlessly inventive ...

Can this really be the first Opera Atelier staging of an opera in Italian by Handel? You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. Reviews and ...