Alcina’s Island
Friday 13th September, 7.00pm at Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, City of Westminster, London, SW1P 3HA
Programme
Giuseppe Gazzaniga – L’Isola d’Alcina
Performers
Thomas Blunt – Conductor
Inna Husieva – soprano
Sarah Chae – soprano
Charlotte Badham – mezzo-soprano
Monwabisi Lindi – Tenor
Magnus Walker – Tenor
Jonathan Eyers – baritone
Owain Rowlands – baritone
Dafydd Allen – Tenor
Bampton Classical Opera
Chroma
For their summer 2024 production Bampton Classical Opera will present Giuseppe Gazzaniga’s bubbling comedy L’isola d’Alcina, with a libretto by Giovanni Bertati. It will be sung in a new English translation by Gilly French as ‘Alcina’s Island’. Performances will be conducted by Thomas Blunt and directed by Jeremy Gray.
L’Isola d’Alcina is loosely based on the character of the sorceress Alcina from Ariosto’s epic Orlando furioso – an Englishman, Frenchman, Spaniard, Italian and German get washed up on Alcina’s magical island where the seductive and beautiful sorceress (although 800 years old) has a habit of discarding her lovers and turning them into rocks or animals.