… Opera is set to present Händel’s “Agrippina” with conductor Ottavio Dantone … could want from an opera.” “Agrippina” will be presented between Jan …

… of cantatas. The story in Handel’s cantata Clori, Tirsi e … by solo theorbo (Sergio Bucheli). Handel subsequently mined the piece to … be heard in Rodrigo (1707), Agrippina (1709), Rinaldo (1711), Acis and …

… repertoire: a program of Handel, with a side glance … by Handel, starting with the overture for his 1710 opera Agrippina, … gods doing immoral things. Handel instead thrived by writing … continues below. Article content Handel’s cantatas employ the operatic …

… , Handel was writing operas on the subject. And one is Agrippina which …

… suggests many crossovers between Handel’s pictures and his … first big operatic success with Agrippina (1709). A number of … religious and mythological scenes lined Handel’s walls, supposedly by … Messiah librettist Charles Jennens. Handel died at Easter in 1759 …

… singers to shine. Good Lord! Handel’s operas are renowned for … in the same league as Agrippina, Theodora, Alcina or Ariodante (we … as the more introspective ones. Handel saves the best arias for … all the roulades and scales Handel throws at them. They were …

… “Messiah,” George Frideric Handel cut his teeth as … homosexuality was not uncommon in Handel’s social circle, Dirst … ,” says Dirst. Still, Handel managed to instill unusual depth … Handel adapted several arias in “Clori” for later works, including “Agrippina …

… Picture a younger, sexier Handel, rocking into Rome aged … gaps between the individual cantatas. Handel himself, meanwhile, burned, … Booth – playing the doomed Agrippina as a surreal Norma Desmond … regard as footnotes to Handel’s career. Birmingham Opera …

… verge of parody, this London Handel Festival show is hugely entertaining … . It takes four of Handel’s youthful Italian cantatas — early … the magnificent Claire Booth, turning Agrippina, Nero’s dreadful mother, into …

… staging of four of Handel’s early Italian cantatas interspersed … s reach as she despatched Handel’s tempestuous figuration with … ferocious, gutsy approach to Handel’s four scores. The … well controlled. Claire Booth’s Agrippina – a platinum-wigged Hollywood …