Handel’s first opera written for England, and the first Italian opera composed for London. (Watch out for sparrows!)
Author: Nicholas Fuller
118. Agrippina (Handel)
Handel's first masterpiece.
What could the Met do instead?
The 2019/20 Met season could be jazzed up. I've tried to stick with the same composer or style, rather than, say, fifty French operas nobody's ever heard of. HANDEL: Agrippina GLUCK: Orfeo ed Euridice --> Iphigénie en Aulide MOZART Marriage of Figaro --> SALIERI: Tarare (libretto by Beaumarchais) / Axur re d'Ormus, Italian version, libretto … Continue reading What could the Met do instead?

