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...Caccini’s opera, like other Alcina settings including Handel’s, draws from Orlando Furioso and depicts a battle between two sorceresses, the good Melissa and the bad Alcina, for the hero Ruggiero....
...Indeed, one senses there’s little that Catherine Wyn-Rogers wouldn’t square up to, which is why she was so well cast as the formidable, furiously jealous Juno....
...EU High Representative Catherine Ashton will discuss developments....
...It features images from an impressive roll call of the fashion world’s coolest photographers, along with 50 interviews about Gaultier’s work and influence from collaborators and muses such as Catherine Deneuve...
...Handel conceived it as a spiritual meditation, an act of faith....
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