Movie

Haendel - Alessandro with Max Emanuel Cencic (Opéra Royal de Versailles)

2013 2h 36m Released

Music

Alessandro (HWV 21), is an opera composed by George Frideric Handel in 1726 for the Royal Academy of Music. Paolo Rolli's libretto is based on the story of Ortensio Mauro's La superbia d'Alessandro. This was the first time the famous singers Faustina Bordoni and Francesca Cuzzoni appeared together in one of Handel's operas. The original cast also included Francesco Bernardi who was known as Senesino. The story recounts Alexander the Great's journey to India and depicts him less in a heroic vein than as vainglorious as well as indecisive in matters of the heart. The work's charm and lightness of touch make it at times almost a comic work.[3]

Cast

Max Emanuel Cenčić Alessandro Adriana Kučerová Lisaura B Blandine Staskiewicz Rossane X Xavier Sabata Tassile P Pavel Kudinov Clito Juan Sancho Leonato