Handel, Alcina, Patricia Petibon
Evidently this lady doesn’t go with the “lie back, relax, and enjoy” philosophy :-)
One might wonder what Handel would have thought of this particular staging :-)
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Handel, Alcina, Patricia Petibon
Handel, Alcina, Patricia Petibon
For another fantastic performance of another aria from Handel's Alcina,
(one without any explicit or implicit sexual connotations)
sung by another outstanding soprano, Anja Harteros, please see
"Ombre pallide", Wiener Staatsoper, 2010
If you want to see and hear more of Anja Harteros as Alcina,
hear her in "Ma quando tornerai"
(ignore the "Play All" message below;
starting the video will start it at the correct spot):
Although I must say Arleen Augér sounds even better in it.
