Alcina

Authors

Taras Krysa, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow
Phillip Lenberg, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow

Document Type

Music Program

Publication Date

11-27-2007

Publication Title

UNLV Opera Theatre

Publisher

University of Nevada, Las Vegas. School of Music

Publisher Location

Las Vegas (Nev.)

First page number:

1

Last page number:

16

Abstract

Alcina was written at a time in Handel's career in London when the company faced competition from a rival company and a resulting financial pinch. There was no loss in the master's artistry, however. Premiered at the new theatre at Covent Garden in 1735, Alcina was sufficiently successful to be revived for the following two seasons. It inexplicably fell into an extended period of neglect thereafter, to be revived once again by Franco Zeffirelli for the young Joan Sutherland in 1957.

Disciplines

Music | Music Performance

File Format

pdf

File Size

940 KB

Language

English

Comments

Best copy available

Rights

IN COPYRIGHT. For more information about this rights statement, please visit http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Repository Citation

Krysa, T., Lenberg, P. (2007). Alcina. UNLV Opera Theatre 1-16.
Available at: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/music_opera/9