TRAILER | AGRIPPINA Handel - The Grange Festival

With her husband apparently drowned at sea, a scheming empress secures the throne for her son from another marriage. But the commander of the army has other ideas, and then the emperor returns, very much alive.

The inspired vision of director Walter Sutcliffe and designer Jon Bausor brings to life the humour and egomania of one of opera’s most outrageous leading women. The youthful Handel packed Agrippina with the full range of his astonishing imagination, setting a libretto at once hilarious, moving and clever. Handel’s music is bursting with originality and fun, as well as carefully considered moments of eye-watering beauty.

CAST

Claudio: Ashley Riches
Agrippina: Anna Bonitatibus
Nerone: Raffaele Pe
Poppea: Stefanie True
Ottone: Christopher Ainslie
Pallante: Alex Otterburn
Narciso: James Hall
Lesbo: Jonathan Best
Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music

Music: Georg Friedrich Handel
Text: Vincenzo Grimani
Conductor: Robert Howarth
Director: Walter Sutcliffe
Associate Director: Katharina Kastening
Designer: Jon Bausor
Lighting Designer: Wolfgang Göbbel
Musical Preparation: Michael Chance
Leader: Bojan Čičić
Assistant Conductor and Repetiteur: Oliver John Ruthven
Language Coach: Matteo Dalle Fratte
Production Manager: Tom Nickson
Costume Supervisor: Sydney Florence

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