Mannes Opera presents Handel's Alcina

Start: Friday, March 7, 2025 7:30PM
End: Saturday, March 8, 2025 10:30PM

Witchcraft, transformation, love-sick fools, magic rings - all taking place on an island. Alcina (1773) is one of Handel's three operas based on Ludovico Ariosto's epic work, Orlando Furioso (1516). The opera is a wild, messy story of love and deception - a fairy tale with magic that accurately describes the pain and exaltation of falling in love. Mannes Opera is thrilled to work with director Sam Helfrich, and to welcome back esteemed Mannes alumnus Geoffrey McDonald as conductor with the Mannes Opera Orchestra.