It is a popular saying in theater that "dying is easy, comedy is hard." In Boston Lyric Opera's (BLO) "Agrippina," the actors have to do both. Fortunately for audiences, they do it well. The opera is ...

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 ...

Julia Agrippina or Agrippina the Younger was born November 6th in the year 15 C.E. Among classists, she was considered the most powerful and ruthless women of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, and yet many ...

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 – 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 ...

Agrippina, where have you been all my life? And Ars Lyrica? I think I love you. Ars Lyrica, Houston’s preeminent early music ensemble, under the sparkling direction of Matthew Dirst, has staged an ...

Not that there isn't much splendid singing and playing to enjoy. Maybe it's even appropriate that excess is the keynote of Joyce DiDonato's Agrippina, fierce to the point of insanity in getting her ...

2 OH, MARY! Reveals Tour Dates and Cities For 2026-27 3 OPERATION MINCEMEAT Reveals 2026-27 Tour Dates and Cities 4 50 Student Nominees Selected for the 2026 Roger Rees Awards Handels tale of intrigue ...

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