Handel's AGRIPPINA
Presented by: The Metropolitan Opera HD Live
When
Approximate running time: 4 hours and 10 minutes
Venue
Event Notes
Agrippina (George Frideric Handel) MET PREMIERE /FIRST TIME IN HD
February 29, 2020, at 12:55PM ET
Conductor: Harry Bicket
Production: Sir David McVicar
Set and Costume Designer: John Macfarlane Lighting Designer: Paule Constable Choreographer: Andrew George
Cast: Brenda Rae (Poppea), Joyce DiDonato (Agrippina), Kate Lindsey (Nerone), Iestyn Davies (Ottone), Duncan Rock (Pallante), Matthew Rose (Claudio)
In the Met's first-ever performances of Agrippina, Handel's satire of sex and power politics, Sir David McVicar reconceives a production he originally created for the Monnaie in Brussels in 2000, evoking a scandalous world in which the Roman Empire never fell but simply kept going right up to the present. Holding a distorted mirror to contemporary society (as Handel did when he staged this opera), the production presents the corrupt intrigues of the political classes, brought to life by Joyce DiDonato as the power-hungry empress Agrippina, Brenda Rae as the scheming, seductive Poppea, and Kate Lindsey as the feckless teenager Nerone. Iestyn Davies portrays the ambitious officer Ottone, and Matthew Rose is the emperor Claudius, on whose vacated throne Agrippina is determined to install her son.
Renowned for his interpretations of the Baroque repertoire, Harry Bicket conducts.
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Lecture Calendar
| Oct 26 | Massenet's Manon |
| Nov 23 | Glass's Akhnaten |
| Feb 1 | The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess |
| Feb 29 | Handel's Agrappina |
| Apr 11 | Puccini's Tosca |
| Oct 12 | Puccini's Turandot |
| Nov 9 | Puccini's Madam Butterfly |
| Jan 11 | Berg's Wozzeck |
| Mar 14 | Wagner's Der Fliegende Holländer |
| May 9 | Donzetti's Maria Strada |
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