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sawylCurrently going through a serious Handelian phase, I've been listing to a lot of the operas on YouTube. Today I made it to Alcina and this wonderful performance from Stuttgart in 1999:
There aren't subtitles — not a great loss considering the incomprehensibility of the plot, based on Orlando Furioso — and it's a bit hard to which character is which at the very beginning — and the cross-dressing doesn't exactly help! — but its seriously enjoyable for all that...
ETA: this makes a lot more sense now that I've used wikipedia to mug up on the characters and the (somewhat ludicrous) plot.
There aren't subtitles — not a great loss considering the incomprehensibility of the plot, based on Orlando Furioso — and it's a bit hard to which character is which at the very beginning — and the cross-dressing doesn't exactly help! — but its seriously enjoyable for all that...
ETA: this makes a lot more sense now that I've used wikipedia to mug up on the characters and the (somewhat ludicrous) plot.
