
The music of George Frideric Handel has always been at the core of Canadian soprano Karina Gauvin’s repertoire. One of her earliest recordings, a 1999 Analekta disc of Handel arias with Tafelmusik under the direction of the late Jeanne Lamon, features two arias from Handel’s 1735 opera seria, Alcina. They provide a tantalizing early career glimpse of the present moment just as Gauvin has triumphed as Alcina in a new production built around her considerable talents by Czech opera director Jiří Heřman for Brno’s National Theatre. After its February 2022 première in the Czech Republic, the production travelled to Versailles…