Alcina – review

Barbican, LondonThe current Great Performers season at the Barbican is given over in part to a series of works based on Orlando Furioso, Ludovico Ariosto's 1532 epic, to which 18th century composers were drawn as to magnets. First came Alcina, Handel's great examination of the transient beauty of sensual experience, and arguably the finest Ariostan opera of them all.The performance used the cast and forces of the current revival at the Vienna Staatsoper, though it also came minus its leading lad...

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