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

Overview

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

Blandine Staskiewicz

Rossane

Xavier Sabata

Tassile

Pavel Kudinov

Clito

Juan Sancho

Leonato

Vasily KHOROSHEV

Cleone