Alcina

Alcina
Opera by George Frideric Handel
Title page of the libretto
LanguageItalian
Based onLibretto of L'isola di Alcina
Premiere
16 April 1735 (1735-04-16)
Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, London

Alcina (HWV 34) is a 1735 opera by George Frideric Handel. Handel used the libretto of L'isola di Alcina, a work set to music in 1728 in Rome by Riccardo Broschi, which he had acquired a year later during his travels in Italy. Partly altered for better conformity, the story was originally taken from Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando furioso (like those of the Handel operas Orlando and Ariodante), an epic poem. The opera contains several musical sequences with opportunity for dance: these were composed for dancer Marie Sallé.

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