Julia Agrippina or Agrippina the Younger was born November 6th in the year 15 C.E. Among classists, she was considered the most powerful and ruthless women of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, and yet many ...

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, ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

It is a popular saying in theater that "dying is easy, comedy is hard." In Boston Lyric Opera's (BLO) "Agrippina," the actors have to do both. Fortunately for audiences, they do it well. The opera is ...

Even by baroque’s baggy standards Cavalli’s Jason is a monster, and demands significant cuts to streamline it for a contemporary audience. Ronald Eyre’s performing edition is brutally efficient, ...

The Machiavellian antics of the eponymous empress in Handel's opera — intent on elevating her son Nero to the throne, the better to order affairs for herself — are rich in comic potential. James ...

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Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by critic’s pick A vivid new production yanks this story of political power grabbing from ancient Rome into the present day. By Zachary Woolfe When talk ...