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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Like the simultaneous tragedy and comedy in Strauss' "Ariadne auf Naxos," the San Francisco Opera premiere of "Alcina" plays like two performances occupying the same stage at the same time. One is a ...