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Opera in three acts to music by Georg Friedrich Händel. Libretto by anonymous author inspired by Ludovico Ariosto`s Orlando furioso. 195 min. Sung in Italian. Coproduction with Festival international d`art lyrique d`Aix-en-Provence (France). Music Director: Andrea Marcon. Director: Katie Mitchell. Chief Chorus Master: Valery Borisov. Designer: Chloe Lamford. Handel used the libretto of L'isola di Alcina, an opera that was set in 1728 in Rome by Riccardo Broschi, which he acquired the year after during his travels in Italy. Partly altered for better conformity, the story was originally taken from Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando furioso (like those of the Handel operas Orlando and Ariodante), an epic poem. The opera contains several musical sequences with opportunity for dance: these were composed for dancer Marie Sallé. The background of the opera comes from the poem Orlando Furioso. The heroic knight Ruggiero is destined to a short but glorious life, and a benevolent magician is always whisking him away from the arms of his fiancée, Bradamante. Bradamante is not the type to put up with the constant disappearance of her lover, and she spends vast portions of the poem in full armor chasing after him.
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