1.2.2024–3.2.2024 Caccini: The Isle of Alcina
Tuuli Lindeberg, soprano
Erica Back, mezzo-soprano
Isabella Shaw, mezzo-soprano
Juho Punkeri, tenor
Helsinki Baroque Orchestra
dir. Marianna Henriksson
Sinna Virtanen, stage director
Ville Virtanen, lighting design
The opera Ruggiero’s liberation (La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina) composed by Francesca Caccini in 1625 is based on Ludovico Ariosto’s epic poem Orlando Furioso, familiar to their contemporaries. In the opera, we dive into the enchanted plants of the island of Alcina; to a world of enchantments, murderous witches, golden-haired gods, storms, streams of tears, prayers and sighs.