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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Not that there isn't much splendid singing and playing to enjoy. Maybe it's even appropriate that excess is the keynote of Joyce DiDonato's Agrippina, fierce to the point of insanity in getting her ...

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 ...

Handels tale of intrigue and impropriety in ancient Rome receives its first Met performances, with star mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato as the controlling, power-hungry Agrippina and Harry Bicket ...

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 ...

Peabody Southwell, playing Agrippina, works out a scene with Hadleigh Adams, as Claudio, left, and Zachary Wilder as Narciso during a rehearsal for Opera Omaha's production of Agrippina held in their ...

Starring Brenda Rae, Joyce DiDonato, Kate Lindsey, Iestyn Davies, Duncan Rock, and Matthew Rose, conducted by Harry Bicket. Production by Sir David McVicar. From FEBRUARY 29, 2020.

From Handel’s Agrippina, at the Met. Photo: Marty Sohl/The Metropolitan Opera A groper-in-chief careens from self-congratulation to petty wrath. Affairs of state take second place to personal ...