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 ...

Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose works include Music: Healing The Rift, a personal history of modern music. He has been involved in music as a composer, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Even by baroque’s baggy standards Cavalli’s Jason is a monster, and demands significant cuts to streamline it for a contemporary audience. Ronald Eyre’s performing edition is brutally efficient, ...