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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

From Handel’s Agrippina, at the Met. Photo: Marty Sohl/The Metropolitan Opera A groper-in-chief careens from self-congratulation to petty wrath. Affairs of state take second place to personal ...

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 ...

Starring Brenda Rae, Joyce DiDonato, Kate Lindsey, Iestyn Davies, Duncan Rock, and Matthew Rose, conducted by Harry Bicket. Production by Sir David McVicar. From FEBRUARY 29, 2020.

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by critic’s pick A vivid new production yanks this story of political power grabbing from ancient Rome into the present day. By Zachary Woolfe When talk ...