Royal College of Music: Britten TheatrePrince Consort Road, London, Greater London, SW7 2BS, Vereinigtes Königreich
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| English Touring Opera | ||
| Jonathan Peter Kenny | Musikalische Leitung | |
| James Conway | Regie | |
| Old Street Band | ||
| Gillian Webster | Sopran | Agrippina |
| Andrew Slater | Bass | Claudio (Claudius) |
| Clint van der Linde | Countertenor | Ottone |
| Jake Arditti | Countertenor | Nerone (Nero) |
| Nicholas Merryweather | Bariton | Pallante |
| Paula Sides | Sopran | Poppea |
| Russell Harcourt | Countertenor | Narciso (Narcissus) |
Handel’s three year visit to Italy culminated in the premiere of his opera Agrippina in Venice in 1709. Composing at speed to a scandalously witty and ironic libretto by a Cardinal, Vincenzo Grimani, Handel drew on his experience of the Italian style, plundering his catalogue of cantatas written for the intelligentsia of Rome and producing a youthful masterpiece of dazzling invention and virtuosity.
Widely regarded as Handel’s first operatic masterpiece, Agrippina stands out for the quality of its music, full of freshness and musical invention. Using many of the same characters as Monteverdi’s The Coronation of Poppea, the opera is in fact a prequel, as Agrippina, wife to the Emperor Claudius, schemes and manipulates to secure the succession to the imperial throne for her son, Nero.
ETO’s new production is conducted by Handel specialist Jonathan Peter Kenny; the cast includes Gillian Webster as the eponymous heroine, Andrew Slater as Claudius and Jake Arditti as Nero.
New production, sung in English
Touring with a live period orchestra
Running time: approx. 3 hours (incl. interval)
Widely regarded as Handel’s first operatic masterpiece, Agrippina stands out for the quality of its music, full of freshness and musical invention. Using many of the same characters as Monteverdi’s The Coronation of Poppea, the opera is in fact a prequel, as Agrippina, wife to the Emperor Claudius, schemes and manipulates to secure the succession to the imperial throne for her son, Nero.
ETO’s new production is conducted by Handel specialist Jonathan Peter Kenny; the cast includes Gillian Webster as the eponymous heroine, Andrew Slater as Claudius and Jake Arditti as Nero.
New production, sung in English
Touring with a live period orchestra
Running time: approx. 3 hours (incl. interval)
