The Palazzo Cordusio Gran Meliá in Milan and Villa Agrippina Gran Meliá in Rome offer travelers exquisite accommodations near ...

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 ...

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This remarkable biography from historian Southon (Marriage, Sex, and Death) follows Agrippina the Younger (15–59 CE), who, “as the daughter of an Imperator, the sister, niece, wife and mother of ...

Rome’s hardball politics were off-limits to women, yet this great-granddaughter of Augustus won power for herself and her son, Nero, who would later have her murdered. Agrippina’s portraits often ...

Although Handel's Agrippina is based on actual, historical figures, the story plays fast and loose with real, historical events. The librettist for the opera was Vincenzo Grimani, an ordained cardinal ...

Machinations, mind games and unabashed ambitions are rampant in the court of Claudius, Emperor of Rome. No one is more adept at manipulating the political lackeys than his clever wife, Agrippina, ...

One by one the country house opera companies are getting into gear. Now it’s The Grange Festival – not to be confused with Grange Park Opera, of whose neo-classical pile it became the occupant last ...