Experience Handel’s black comedy of intrigue and impropriety in this production from David McVicar set in the present. Joyce DiDonato stars as the cunning title character with Harry Bicket at the ...
Kate Lindsey sings an excerpt from Nerone's Act III aria in the final dress rehearsal. Production: Sir David McVicar. This early Italian opera of Handel was a success that secured the composer's ...
Get you first look at Agrippina as Handel's tale of intrigue and impropriety in ancient Rome receives its first Met performances, with star mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato as the controlling, ...
The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD broadcast of George Frideric Handel’s satirical political comedy “Agrippina” will be shown at the Whitefish Performing Arts Center at 10:55 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 29.
NEW YORK – When talk turns to whether the Metropolitan Opera should put on old works – like 1709 old – habits die hard. The story has been told for decades that intimate Baroque operas will vanish in ...
Agrippina, where have you been all my life? And Ars Lyrica? I think I love you. Ars Lyrica, Houston’s preeminent early music ensemble, under the sparkling direction of Matthew Dirst, has staged an ...
Although Handel's Agrippina is based on actual, historical figures, the story plays fast and loose with real, historical events. The librettist for the opera was Vincenzo Grimani, an ordained cardinal ...
Back in 2005, Boston Baroque scored a noted success with its semi-staged production of Handel’s “Agrippina,” which Richard Dyer described in these pages as “the finest local operatic performance in ...
NEW YORK — When talk turns to whether the Metropolitan Opera should put on old works — like 1709 old — habits die hard. The story has been told for decades that intimate Baroque operas will vanish in ...