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Alcina
By George Frideric Handel (Georg Friedrich Händel)
Score
Handel, Alcina - Chrysander (HG) score (pdf)
Recordings
 Handel. Alcina. (HWV 34, London 1735).
DG-Archiv 477 737-4 (3 CDs, March 2009). (Joyce
DiDonato's blog about recording Alcina). Alan Curtis,
Il Complesso Barocco. Alcina: Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano;
Ruggiero: Maite Beaumont, mezzo-soprano; Morgana: Karina Gauvin,
soprano; Bradamante: Sonia Prina, contralto; Oronte: Kobie van
Rensburg, tenor; Oberto: Laura Cherici, soprano; Melisso: Vito
Priante, bass.
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 Handel.
Alcina. (HWV 34, London 1735). EMI EX 27 0388 3 (US: EMI
Angel DSD-3985) (4 LPs 1986), reissued on 3 CDs: 7 49771.
Richard Hickox, City of London Baroque Sinfonia. Alcina: Arlene
Augér, soprano; Morgana: Eiddwen Harrhy, soprano; Ruggiero:
Della Jones, mezzo-soprano; Bradamante: Kathleen Kuhlmann,
contralto; Oberto: Patrizia Kwella, soprano; Oronte: Maldwyn
Davies, tenor; Melisso: John Tomlinson, bass.
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 Handel. Alcina - Arias (Alcina & Morgana) &
Suites. Avi 42 6008553143 1 (1 CD, March 2009).
Details. Christine Schäfer, soprano. Rainer Kussmaul,
Berliner Barock Solisten.
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 Handel.
Alcina. (HWV 34, London 1735). Erato 8573-80233-2 (3 CDs
2000). William Christie, Les Arts Florissants. Alcina: Renée
Fleming, soprano; Ruggiero: Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano; Morgana:
Natalie Dessay, soprano; Bradamante: Kathleen Kuhlmann,
contralto; Oronte: Timothy Robinson, tenor; Melisso: Laurent
Naouri, bass; Oberto: Juanita Lascarro, soprano. Annoying
performance, with lots of vibrato and extended, shrieking
cadenzas.
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JPReissued on Warner Classics 2564-69653-2 (2008) in a 6-CD set with Christie's recording of Orlando. Librettos (pdf). US | UK | FR | DE | CA | JP |
Related Operas
Riccardo Broschi. L'isola d'Alcina (Rome 1728). Librettist unknown. Revised for Parma (1729) as Bradamante nell' isola d'Alcina. Handel's libretto is based on the Rome version and includes "unusually few alterations to the London text". (Strohm, page 70).
References
Winton Dean. Handel's Operas, 1726-1741 (Boydell Press 2006).
R. Strohm, "Handel and his Italian opera texts." Essays on Handel and the Italian Opera. (Oxford University Press 1985).
| Iain Fenlon & Tim Carter (eds.) Con Che Soavità: Studies in Italian Opera, Song and Dance, 1580-1740. 336 pages. Oxford University Press 1995. Contents include: The Making of Alcina, by Winton Dean. US | UK |