SEMI-STAGED `AGRIPPINA' GETS FULL MARKS The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) (10/25/2005)
...staged account of Handel's "Agrippina" Saturday night was not just...performance in several seasons. "Agrippina," written by the 24-year-old future composer of "Messiah...is about how the villainous Agrippina, the mother of Nero, schemes...

REVIEW: 'AGRIPPINA' A TOWERING, COMIC TRIUMPH.(Main)(Opera review) The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM) (7/26/2004)
...Opera production of Handel's Agrippina proved Saturday. This superbly...facts. The first-century Agrippina murdered anyone who stood in...look at it. The 25-year old Handel and his librettist...sordid details when they wrote Agrippina for Venice's 1709 ...

Opera; The Lusty "Agrippina'; Handel's Roman Romp, Delightfully Sung The Washington Post (1/6/1992)
...King Arthur." The story of "Agrippina" takes place in imperial Rome...young Nero, who was then 12 years old and dominated by lust for the...he could get from his mother, Agrippina. "Agrippina" is essentially about how he...

Opera; `Agrippina,' for Laughs; Maryland's New Handel on an Old Work The Washington Post (11/5/1990)
...international reputation, but Handel's "Agrippina," which he directed last week at the...offend no one. Instead, Major has made "Agrippina" the funniest opera production seen...Otho), but sopranos Karen Olson (Agrippina) and Diane Rose (Poppea) also sang...

Don't cry for me, Agrippina but cheer this satire.(Review) The Evening Standard (London, England) (3/25/2003)
...is why the 1709 comic opera Agrippina, a complex, satirical farce...dramatic timing. As the conniving Agrippina herself, the soprano Sarah...translation ("Don't cry for me, Agrippina"), turns the crown prince and despot into a slightly older and grungier, ...

Handel's 'Agrippina' receives comic touch that's just right.(Local)(Opera review) The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA) (1/28/2007)
...of his very first works. "Agrippina," which premiered in Italy...ornamented Baroque music. The old musical style did not feel...rich and full as Walker's. Agrippina and Claudio, the conveniently...pitch unclear. As Nerone, Agrippina's ambitious son, tenor ...

HANDEL'S "AGRIPPINA' TO OPEN.(Weekend)(Theater Notebook)(Column) The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) (7/20/2001)
...George Frideric Handel was only 24 years old and very much an ambitious prodigy. He...reputation. And then in 1709 his opera "Agrippina" was first performed in Venice. It was...comic light. Glimmerglass Opera opens "Agrippina" at 8 p.m. Saturday and performs it...

Chicago.(Agrippina)(Opera Review) Opera Canada (9/22/2003)
...often jeer that opera-goers hear the same old thing, year in and year out. For startling...latest being Chicago Opera Theater's Agrippina, conducted by Baroque specialist Emmanuelle...years (the company is now almost 30 years old), casting is not limited to local singers...

Agrippina. (book reviews) History Today (8/1/1997)
...shibboleths are now described as ideology (not propaganda) and seen as part of a conspiracy of belief by ruler and ruled. the old innocence will not return. For Syme also altered the terms in which the political system was understood, from constitutional...