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 ...

Welcome to Alcina’s island paradise. All men who set foot there fall under her spell, but soon discover it’s all an illusion: Alcina is an enchantress whose island is nothing but a barren wasteland, ...

Asked what feelings we should go away with when the Musical Arts Center curtain closes at the end of Handel’s opera “Álcina,” stage director Chas Rader-Shieber says: “You should feel more human than ...

2 REVIEW: Impressive Singing in Strauss’s EGYPTIAN HELEN, but the Story’s a Mystery at SummerScape Alcina is a Baroque masterpiece by George Frideric Handel. The title character, Alcina, is a ...

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 ...

There is a lot of opera on DVD lately, and the recent Arthaus Musik release of Handel's "Alcina" might have passed unnoticed save for an important local connection: It is a live 1999 recording of the ...

1 REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents MALDOROR By Julien Gosselin 2 REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents UMA LUZ CORDIAL By Carolina Bianchi and Cara de Cavalo 3 REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon ...

Mention an orc or a hippogriff around most people of a certain age, and their ears will prick up. Surely, the conversation must be about “The Lord of the Rings” or “Harry Potter.” But authors J.R.R.

Every once in a while, someone decides to start a new opera company. It's the most labor-intensive, and therefore expensive, of the performing arts, so rarely does the effort last long. But the ...