Alcina

Alcina is a powerful sorceress. And she has everything: wealth, power and many admirers. People love her and fear her. Alcina is beautiful, clever and very dangerous. She turns anyone who threatens her into animals or stones. But even Alcina has a weakness: she loves Ruggiero and is afraid of losing him. She enchants, lies to and manipulates him wherever she can, and he falls for her, senselessly happy. Until one day Bradamante, Ruggiero's fiancée, arrives on the magical island disguised as a man. Courageous and combative, she wants to win her Ruggiero back. But that's not all: Alcina's sister falls in love with Bradamante, who is disguised as a man, and does everything she can to win her / him (?) over. Now the chaos is complete! A wild cat-and-mouse game of confused and desperate love begins. Suddenly nothing is as it seems, no one can be trusted and the fairytale idyll becomes the scene of bitter battles for truth, love, trust and the question of one's own identity. With ALCINA, George Frideric Handel created one of his most successful operas in 1735. The beguilingly beautiful, sensual and dramatic music is, like Alcina herself, an event: once you have experienced it, you will be enchanted and never forget it. General Music Director André de Ridder, a passionate specialist for this repertoire, is the musical director and the production team of Pia Partum, Katarzyna Borkowska and Tatjana Beyer will seduce you into a bubble of immaculate beauty. If it weren't for the wild animals waiting hungrily for a favorable moment ...