Today’s Beautiful Music offering is a complete live performance of George Frideric Handel’s magical opera ALCINA, with luminous American soprano Nicole Cabell singing the title role. The 2016 performance in Geneva was conducted by Leonardo García Alarcón, an Argentinian harpsichordist and organist who specializes in baroque music. The other roles are sung by Monica Bacelli, Siobhan Stagg, Kristina Hammarström, Anicio Zorzi Giustinian, Erlend Tvinnereim and Michael Adams.
Nicole Cabell is also currently starring in a production of William Grant Still’s opera HIGHWAY 1, USA” in St. Louis. You can read an article below about this important and long overdue production, which runs through June 17, 2021.
‘Alcina’ Händel; Genève 2016 – YouTube
A Black Composer’s Intense Opera Gets a Rare Staging – The New York Times (nytimes.com)