AGRIPPINA Paris 2003 Antonacci Ernman Zazzo Jacobs
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Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Agrippina
- Composer: Handel George Frideric aka Händel Georg Friedrich
- Libretto: Vincenzo Grimani Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Paris, France
- Recorded: September 23 2003
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Anna Caterina Antonacci, Malena Ernman, Miah Persson, Lorenzo Regazzo, Lawrence Zazzo, Antonio Abete, Dominique Visse, Lynton Black.
- Conductor: Réne Jacobs
- Orchestra: Concerto Köln
Information about the Recording
- Format: Unknown
- Quality Video: 3 Audio:3
- Subtitles: nosubs
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Agrippina (HWV 6) is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel with a libretto by Cardinal Vincenzo Grimani. Composed for the 1709–10 Venice Carnevale season, the opera tells the story of Agrippina, the mother of Nero, as she plots the downfall of the Roman Emperor Claudius and the installation of her son as emperor. Grimani’s libretto, considered one of the best that Handel set, is an “anti-heroic satirical comedy”, full of topical political allusions. Some analysts believe that it reflects Grimani’s political and diplomatic rivalry with Pope Clement XI.
Handel composed Agrippina at the end of a three-year sojourn in Italy. It premiered in Venice at the Teatro San Giovanni Grisostomo on 26 December 1709. It proved an immediate success and an unprecedented series of 27 consecutive performances followed. Observers praised the quality of the music—much of which, in keeping with the contemporary custom, had been borrowed and adapted from other works, including the works of other composers. Despite the evident public enthusiasm for the work, Handel did not promote further stagings. There were occasional productions in the years following its premiere but Handel’s operas, including Agrippina, fell out of fashion in the mid-18th century.