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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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 ...

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.

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 ...

NEW YORK – What if the Roman Empire – with all its decadence, corruption and power-grabbing rulers left unchecked by an oddly docile Senate – never really ended? That was the conceit that Scottish ...

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 ...

Although “Agrippina” was always meant to be funny, the joke has changed a bit in the almost 300 years since it premiered in Venice in 1709. All the characters in the opera are historical, but the ...

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 ...