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Handel: Alcina Details

1999

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Starring	Catherine Naglestad, Alice Coote, Helene Schneidermann, Staatsorchester Stuttgart
Director	Jossi Wieler, Sergio Morabito
Genres	Music/Musical, World Cinema

Handel: Alcina

Handel's most popular stage work, ALCINA is a Baroque fantasy about the havoc Alcina, a sorceress, wreaks upon the lives of, among others, Ruggerio and Bradamante, two lovers who have wandered into her enchanted isle. This Stuttgart State Opera production of Handel's opera is visually mesmerizing, intensely dramatic, and wonderfully vocalized. Aided by Catherine Naglestad's star turn as Alcina, the tragic enchantress who has put her seductive spell on the isle's captives, this production emerged as one of the best at the 2000 Edinburgh Festival, where it premiered.

Starring	Catherine Naglestad, Alice Coote, Helene Schneidermann, Staatsorchester Stuttgart, Alan Hacker
Director	Jossi Wieler, Sergio Morabito
Studio	ARTHAUS MUSIK
Run time	DVD: 2 hrs 39 mins
Certificate
Genres	Music/Musical, World Cinema
Language	DVD: German
Subtitles	DVD: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
Released	Production year: 1999 To Rent: DVD: 04 Mar 2002

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  Clunky
  
  Great singing, fantastic music. An updated version ruined for me by a very clunky set - cold of emotion, and very harsh on the eyes.
  
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  - Mike Casman
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  - 19 Sep 2004 at 22:24
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  So disappointing
  
  Lovely music and fine singing ruined fo me by a bizarre prodution which totally destroyed any 'magic'--surely the point. I finished up fast forwarding. ... read more »
  
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  Appalling production
  
  A baroque opera well sung, but visually ruined by contemporary shabby costumes and dreary unchanging scenery which bore no reference to the libretto. What a ... read more »
  
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- - rossdale
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  - Putney
  - 09 Mar 2011 at 20:13
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  Powerful and Alluring Alcina
  
  A powerful and alluring Catherine Nagelstad leads a female-dominated cast with Alice Coote playing a fascinatingly adolescent Ruggiero while Helene ... read more »
  
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  Handel's most popular stage work, ALCINA is a Baroque fantasy about the havoc Alcina, a sorceress, wreaks upon the lives of, among others, Ruggerio and Bradamante, two lovers who have wandered into her enchanted isle. This Stuttgart State Opera production of Handel's opera is visually mesmerizing, ...