Lisette Oropesa in Alcina
(Picture: Marc Brenner)In Handel’s gloriously tuneful opera Alcina the eponymous enchantress presides over a realm of hedonism in which former lovers have been turned into wild beasts.
Richard Jones’s endlessly inventive staging, his most inspired for many years, is, on one level, rooted approximately in the age of Handel’s primary source, Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso – here English Puritanism – and at the same time firmly in the modern day.
