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 ...
Get you first look at Agrippina as Handel's tale of intrigue and impropriety in ancient Rome receives its first Met performances, with star mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato as the controlling, ...
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The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD broadcast of George Frideric Handel’s satirical political comedy “Agrippina” will be shown at the Whitefish Performing Arts Center at 10:55 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 29.
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 ...
NEW YORK – What if the Roman Empire – with all its decadence, corruption and power-grabbing rulers left unchecked by an oddly docile Senate – never really ended? That was the conceit that Scottish ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD broadcast of George Frideric Handel’s satirical political comedy “Agrippina” will be shown at the Whitefish Performing Arts Center at 10:55 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 29.