Metropolitan Opera Live Broadcast - February 29, 2020 Handel's Agrippina
Agrippina, Handel’s satire
about the lust for power in ancient Rome, dating from 1709, is oldest opera ever broadcast from the Met. Grammy Award-winning
mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato stars
in the title role as the Empress who will stop at nothing to make sure her son
inherits the throne. Brenda Rae makes
her network broadcast debut as the alluring Poppea; Kate Lindsey is Nerone, Agrippina’s feckless son Nero; Iestyn Davies is the commander Ottone,
favored to become ruler; and Matthew
Rose is Agrippina’s husband, the Emperor Claudio. Baroque expert Harry Bicket conducts the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
- 1:11pm Handel: Agrippina - Part 1 by Joyce DiDonato, Brenda Rae, Kate Lindsey, Iestyn Davies and Matthew Rosewith Harry Bicket conducting the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra on Metropolitan Opera Live (Live)
- 1:38pm Handel: Agrippina - Intermission by Joyce DiDonato, Brenda Rae, Kate Lindsey, Iestyn Davies and Matthew Rosewith Harry Bicket conducting the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra on Metropolitan Opera Live (Live)
- 2:50pm Handel: Agrippina - Part 2 by Joyce DiDonato, Brenda Rae, Kate Lindsey, Iestyn Davies and Matthew Rosewith Harry Bicket conducting the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra on Metropolitan Opera Live (Live)
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