Alcina 2003Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (RSAMD)
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Alcina has not been performed in Scotland anything like as often as it deserves. Perhaps this staging by the experienced William Relton was seen as an antidote to the controversial one that had appeared at the Edinburgh Festival a couple of years before. In any event, Christian Curnyn was already showing himself to be an expert baroque stylist. Clearly the Academy had a superb team of sopranos at this time, with two alternating in the title role as well as a third singing Morgana.
Performance Cast
- Bradamante a lady, betrothed to Ruggiero and disguised
- Melisso tutor to Bradamante
- Morgana Alcina's sister and Oronte's lover
- Alcina an enchantress in love with Ruggiero
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Henriika Gröndahl (May 3, 7)
Elizabeth Atherton (May 5, 9)
- Ruggiero a knight enslaved to Alcina
- Oberto a youth
- Oronte commander of Alcina's forces