“Context, Competition, and High Notes: Handel’s Alcina” | Ellen Harris, Professor Emeritus at MIT in Music and Theater Arts | Boston Early Music Festival
Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall Longy School of Music, 27 Garden Street, Cambridge“Context, Competition, and High Notes: Handel’s Alcina” Description: Handel wrote Alcina at a very difficult period in his life when he faced the stiffest competition of his career. He used...