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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 ...
Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Handel and his librettist, Vincent Grimani, knew that certain stories are ...
The same could be said of spectators witnessing this Royal Opera cast for Agrippina going way over the top, and mostly not in the best way: surprising given the rigour with which Barrie Kosky usually ...
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 ...
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 ...
Paul Kellogg, the New York City Opera’s general director, has been eloquent about the need to relocate the company away Paul Kellogg, the New York City Opera’s general director, has been eloquent ...
While Monteverdi’s The Coronation of Poppea takes place within the tyrannical reign of the Emperor Nero, Handel’s Agrippina, written 60 years later, charts the lead-up to the mean fiddler’s accession ...
Performances in N.Y.C. A contemporary-dress Handel production calls to mind “House of Cards,” “Succession” and your choice of rulers in the age of Trump. The mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato stars in the ...
The same could be said of spectators witnessing this Royal Opera cast for Agrippina going way over the top, and mostly not in the best way: surprising given the rigour with which Barrie Kosky usually ...