HANDEL: Alcina*

HANDEL: Alcina* 27 April. London, C.G. Text based on A. Fanzaglia’s L’Isola della Alcina, set by R. Broschi for Rome, 1728, from Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso. Three acts. Given in London 24 times until 1737. In Italian also Brunswick February 1738 (some airs sung in German) and August 1738 (wholly in Italian). Revived Leipzig 14 June 1928 (German version by H. Roth ). Alcina was the first of Handel’s operas published in the German Handel Gesamtausgabe (1869).