Agrippina is a woman on a mission: the stakes are love, death, and supreme power. Samantha Hankey stars in Handel’s first operatic masterpiece.
Handel’s youthful tragi-comedy caused a sensation in Carnival season in Venice in 1709: it’s only fitting that this concert performance features vocal superstars. And Maxim Emelyanychev and Il Pomo d’Oro won’t hold back, either.