HANDEL, G.F.: Agrippina [Opera] (Theater an der Wien, 2016)
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
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
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.
