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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This past weekend, the Boston Lyric Opera concluded its run of “Agrippina,” an Italian opera written by German composer George Friedrich Handel in 1709. A story of romantic and political deceit, the ...

The corrupt intrigues of the ancient Roman court get an American political TV drama-style revamp in Oliver Mears’ production for Irish Youth Opera of Handel’s 18th century opera, Agrippina. As the ...

Joyce DiDonato’s stop-at-nothing empress leads a top ensemble cast in Barrie Kosky’s enthralling Agrippina. Plus dizzying Gerald Barry and a powerful Martinů rarity Current politics has nothing on the ...