Handel - Alcina - Classic Voice.

Handel premiered the opera Alcina on April 26, 1735. Like Orlando, this magic opera is based on cantos from Ariosto's Orlando Furioso and has a fairy-tale aspect about it. Handel turned the character of Alcina, a siren who disposes of her ex-lovers by turning them into all kinds of objects, into a powerful but evil sorceress, a vulnerable woman, and finally a defeated, despairing queen.

Watch movie and read libretto and translation of Credete al mio dolore, an aria for soprano from the Italian opera Alcina by Georg Handel.