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GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
Alcina
Alcina Anja Harteros
Ruggiero Vesselina Kasarova
Bradamante Kristina Hammarström
Morgana Veronica Cangemi
Les Musiciens Du Louvre – Grenoble
Wiener Staatsballett / Marc Minkowski
Stage Directed by Adrian Noble
Set & Costumes by Anthony Ward
Live Recording from the Wiener Staatsoper, 2010
Handel’s operas are now so thoroughly a part of modern musical life that you might think every major opera house welcomes them. But until November 2010, when it introduced an absorbing new production of Alcina, the Vienna Staatsoper resisted them, not having done a Baroque opera since Monteverdi’s Poppea in the 1960s.
The present production boasted an all-star cast of Baroque specialists, a former director of the Royal Shakespeare Company - Adrian Noble, the highly-acclaimed conductor Marc Minkowski and his Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble in the pit.
Adrian Noble places his Alcina into a framework which begins in the magnificent ballroom of the Devonshire-House in London Piccadilly. The legendary Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, stages a play in which she is acting together with her friends, a stage on the stage.
Alcina is a great musical experience geared to the Baroque curiosity. Marc Minkowski revives Handel’s music in an outstanding way.
“Wonderful, beautiful world of Opera!…a sensational success.” Kronen Zeitung
“The Vienna State Opera opens up to baroque opera with Handel’s Alcina. Marc Minkowski’s Musiciens du Louvre ensure a great success.” FAZ
“…rapturously received by the audience: it was a triumph…Hats off to German soprano Anja Harteros for her clear, intense voice and artful phrasing. Vesselina Kasarova’s captivating and subtle Ruggiero should only come as a surprise to those unfamiliar with her as a Mozart performer. Die Welt
“…Les Musiciens du Louvre – Grenoble, in outstanding form here under Marc Minkowski’s direction.” New York Times
BONUS: Behind the Scenes
Sound Format: PCM Stereo, dts-HD Master Audio 5.1
Picture Format: 16:9
Resolution: 1080i FULL HD
Subtitle Languages: DE, IT, GB, FR, ES, JP, Korean
Running Time: 205 mins (Opera) + 21 mins (Bonus)
Blu-ray Disc: 50 GB (Dual Layer)
FSK: 0
Region Code: Worldwide
Worldwide available excluding France
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