Baroque sorcery: Handel's Alcina returns to the Staatsoper

Por Katherine Syer, 24 octubre 2016

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“Noble and Myrtò Papatanasiu as Alcina scored a theatrically thrilling conclusion to the first part”

Crítica hecha desde Wiener Staatsoper, Viena el 20 octubre 2016

Handel, Alcina

Wiener Staatsoper

Marc Minkowski, Dirección

Adrian Noble, Dirección de escena

Anthony Ward, Diseño de escena

Myrtò Papatanasiu, Alcina

Chen Reiss, Morgana

Margarita Gritskova, Bradamante

Rachel Frenkel, Ruggiero

Lionel Wunsch, Oberto

Benjamin Bruns, Oronte

Orhan Yildiz, Melisso

Concert Association Vienna State Opera Chorus

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Katherine Syer

Katherine Syer is a Los Angeles-based writer/editor, public scholar, and dramaturg following a teaching career at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and UCLA