Agrippina, HWV 6

Composer: Handel, George Frideric

Librettist/Text Author: Grimani, Vincenzo

Conductor: Hengelbrock, Thomas

Ensemble: Balthasar-Neumann Ensemble

Agrippina: Bardon, Patricia

Claudio: Kares, Mika

Lesbo: Seidl, Christoph

Narciso: Verney, Tom

Nerone: Arditti, Jake

Ottone: Mineccia, Filippo

Pallante: Pass, Damien

Poppea: Niese, Danielle de

Set Designer: Davey, Gideon

Costume Designer: Davey, Gideon

Lighting Designer: Carsen, Robert

Lighting Designer: Praet, Peter van

Stage Director: Carsen, Robert

Television Director: Roussillon, Francois

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Date of Production: 09-2019

Venue: Theater an der Wien, Austria

Playing Time: 02:58:25

Catalogue Number: 2.110579-80

UPC: 747313557950

Synopsis

Agrippina, HWV 6

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During his years in Italy, Handel absorbed the music of his contemporaries and mastered new stylistic trends. Though the staging of La resurrezione was a memorable event in the Roman musical world, it was the production of Agrippina that marked Handel's definitive investiture as an operatic composer. It met with enormous success and an unprecedented number of performances followed. Its melodic power is overwhelming and in his creation of credible and vivid characters, the alternation of recitative and arias, and sheer theatrical power, Handel established the template that was to last for the remainder of his operatic career.