Handel’s first opera written for England, and the first Italian opera composed for London. (Watch out for sparrows!)
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?

