ten functions of the opera will be offered with two different distributions between days 27 October 10 of November.
Alcina It is a co-production Teatro Real and of the Bordeaux National Opera, which premiered production 2012.
In the stage version, director David Alden pays tribute to the theater as a refuge and escape from reality, Inspired by the movie The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), from Woody Allen.
Two select deals seven singers are responsible for the interpretation of the opera, including their choral parts, under the expert baton of British Christopher Moulds in front of the Head of the Royal Theatre Orchestra.
Around Alcina will be offered next 5 November countertenor recital Xavier Sabata with arias Händel written for castrato, which will take place at the Sony Auditorium Albéniz Foundation (Plaza de Oriente).
Concert programs Sunday Camera 8 November and children's workshop Everyone to the Gayarre! of the 15 November will also be inspired by the great figure Handel.
Until the day 17 from January, the National Library It offers an exhibition on major issues Orlando Furioso, from Ludovico Ariosto, part epic poem the libretto of Alcina.
Day function 10 November will be broadcast live on Digital Palco.
Between days 27 October 10 of November Royal Theatre offer ten functions from Alcina, from georg Friedrich Handel (1685-1759), New coproduction of the Royal Theater and the Opera National de Bordeaux, where production premiered in May 2012.
Between the 42 Handel composed operas, Alcina -estrenada in 1735 Covent Garden in London in its final stage as operístico- composer is considered one of the most successful in the characterization of the characters and the expression of emotions. Its modern dramaturgy, his inspired melodies and brilliant orchestration justify the growing presence of this work in the programming of theaters and festivals around the world since its 'rediscovery' in the years 60 last century, after more than two hundred years of neglect.
In Alcina, Händel resort for the third time the epic poem Orlando Furioso, from Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533) -after do in Orlando Y Ariodante—, to portray human emotions and passions with the freedom that gives the allegorical world, fantastic and supernatural Italian poet.
In its scenic conception of this opera, the meticulous director of American scene David Alden which he has directed eight titles Händel, including two different productions AlcinaHe makes a tribute to the cinema and theater as spaces for escape from reality.
Inspired by the film Woody Allen The Purple Rose of Cairo, Alden transforms the enchanted island Alcina in a small theater, Ruggiero where escapes to escape the routine life with his beloved Bradamante. There enjoying the erotic pleasures and the charm of the sorceress Alcina impetuous and perfidious, who unleashes her sexual desires, rejecting his successive lovers and transforming them into stones and wild animals.
The plot thickens when Alcina succumbs to true love for Ruggiero, while he is finally rescued by his beloved Bradamante and guardians of order and morality. But his release from the clutches of the sorceress also represents a return to real life, which will haunt forever nostalgia for that world dream, lust and debauchery.
In Alcina Seven characters express a huge and rich palette of emotions over more than three hours of music, including 26 arias, choral parts (performed by the seven soloists) and orchestral, in a scathing lyrical and poignant epic, which it will be interpreted by two select Real and deals Head of the Royal Theatre Orchestra, under the direction of renowned British director Christopher Moulds.
the score, inscribed in the canons of the call opera seria baroque, alternating recitatives advancing action and arias expressing the emotions of the characters and give wings to the virtuosic display singers.
In the Real cast it includes two transvestites papers: Ruggiero Bradamante The young man promised to love the insatiable sorceress Alcina- It was written for a castrated and it will be played by the mezzosopranos Christine Rice Y Jose Maria Lo Monaco; Oberto young and pert -character Handel created for a virtuoso soprano boy who had called his attention to a performance of his opera Ariodante- will be played by sopranos Erika Escribá Y Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli.
Karina Gauvin, interpreter of the title role, It has been one of the muses director and musicologist Alan Curtis, recently deceased, with whom he performed and recorded regularly over the last ten years. With him and a whole, The complex Baroque, He was unveiled at Real with Tolomeo, the same Händel, by the contralto Sonia Prina, another great specialist in Baroque, that accompanies this time as an interpreter of the role of Bradamante (Real he debuted in the season 2007-2008, next to Les Arts Florissants, in The orfeo Monteverdi). The trio protagonist is completed with the mezzosoprano Christine Rice, who acted in two productions directed by Pier Luigi Pizzi at Real: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Benjamin Britten e The Return of Ulysses to Ithaca, de Claudio Monteverdi.
These three singers will alternate with Sofia Soloviy —Poppea e Nerone, Alceste Y The Marriage of Figaro- in the title role, and the mezzosopranos Jose Maria Lo Monaco Y Angelique Noldus, debuting at the Royal Theater.
Sopranos complete both deals Anna Christy Y María José Moreno, as Morgana, Y Erika Escribà Y Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli, as Oberto.
Male roles are played by tenors Allan Clayton Y Anthony Gregory, as Orontes, and low Luca Tittoto and baritone Johannes Weisser, as Melisso.
‘ALCINA’
PARALLEL ACTIVITIES
Exposure The Furious in the BNE '
Selection of the main issues Orlando Furioso, of Ludovico Ariosto
6 October 2015 – 17 of January of 2016
Museum of the National Library of Spain. minimum room
approaches
Meeting with the directors and actors of Alcina
22 October, to 20.15 h.
Teatro Real. Sala Gayarre
Street entrance Felipe V
Free access until full capacity
Recital of the countertenor Xavier Sabata
Markello Chrysikopoulos, key
simos Papanas, bass
5 November 2015. 20.00 hours
Albéniz Foundation. Sony auditorium
Plaza de Oriente. Requena Street entrance, 1
Chamber Sundays
Alrededor de George Frideric Handel
http://www.osm.es/es/Programacion/Detalle_Actividad.aspx?id=596&tipo=Conciertos&type=concierto
Program
part I
George Frideric Handel / Johan Halvorsen: Passacaglia for violin and viola
georg Friedrich Handel: Trio Sonata for two oboes, bassoon and key, Gorge 381
Franz Joseph Haydn: Trio in D major for flute, viola and double bass
François Couperin: The nations: The Spanish
part II
Hugo Wolf: Italian Serenade, for string quartet
Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet op. 59 No 3, "Razumovski"
Soloists of the Titular Orchestra of the Teatro Real
8 of November, to 12.00 h.
Teatro Real. Great room
Everyone to the Gayarre!
Alcina, the sorceress
She is beautiful, but, watch out, you can turn into a cockroach ...
Workshop conceived and presented by Fernando Palacios
15 of November, to 12.00 and to the 17.00 h.
Teatro Real. Sala Gayarre
Street entrance Felipe V