La Liberazione di Ruggiero dall’Isola di Alcina review – 17th-century rarity is fun when it forgets to be earnest

Buxton festival Francesca Caccini’s 1625 work – the earliest surviving opera by a woman – is wildly imaginative, even without the original horse ballet There is magic in the air at this year’s Buxton festival – and it’s not just the hops from the local brewery. Wizards,…

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