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Alcina’s Island: A Picnic Operetta

August 20 – October 1, 2011

This Alcina is rowdy and delicious!

In our colorful re-imagining of George Frideric Handel’s 1735 opera Alcina, the garden becomes a truck stop on the American highway. Scheming sorceresses Alcina and Morgana become truck stop waitresses, luring brave truckers astray. We combine Handel’s early baroque with outlaw country, trucker songs and classic old-time music.

Handel’s opera — based on Ariosto’s epic poem Orlando furious — features monsters, magic spells, rings of invisibility and a flying hippogriff.  And, of course, the glory of love and music conquers all!

The magic of this island will be all the more savory, with Chef Nick Schneider’s five course sampling menu of locally sourced treats created especially for this performance.

Alcina’s Island is made possible in part by these sponsors:

Linden Hills Co-op Summit Brewing  The Aliveness Project
 The Wedge Co-op  Wise Acre Eatery  Gardens of Eagan
 Seward Co-op  Rustica Bakery

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