A three-hour tour
We may all be armchair Handelians, but some of us are more used to it than others.
38 pieces since 2012 — in 18 roles, at 10 companies, most often at Metropolitan Opera.
3 pieces as Bradamante — stats above show all coverage for Elizabeth DeShong.
View allWe may all be armchair Handelians, but some of us are more used to it than others.
In their realization of Alcina, Harry Bicket and his ensemble recreated a dramatically vivid and musically nuanced character study out of the opera’s central figures.
You’d think after nearly 40 years of opera going I’d have seen almost everything.. .twice. Yet I found myself at LA Opera Tuesday night for a special presentation of George Frideric Handel’s Alcina which was my first live experience with one of his operas.
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