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 ...

George Frideric Handel’s opera Agrippina, which premiered in Venice in 1709, combines political intrigue with romantic drama. Empress Agrippina wishes to place her son Nero on the throne, but 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 ...

Agrippina, Nero’s mother. Now there’s a subject for a black comedy. Or a satirical opera. At 10:55 a.m. Saturday, The MET Live in HD will live stream Handel’s grim-but-fluffy opera “Agrippina” in the ...

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 ...

The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD broadcast of George Frideric Handel’s satirical political comedy “Agrippina” will be shown at the Whitefish Performing Arts Center at 10:55 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 29.

From Handel’s Agrippina, at the Met. Photo: Marty Sohl/The Metropolitan Opera A groper-in-chief careens from self-congratulation to petty wrath. Affairs of state take second place to personal ...