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Handel: Agrippina

Il Pomo d’Oro with Joyce DiDonato

,Barbican Hall
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Agrippina is a woman on a mission: the stakes are love, death, and supreme power. Joyce DiDonato 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 like Joyce DiDonato and Franco Fagioli. And Maxim Emelyanychev and Il Pomo d’Oro won’t hold back, either.

It’s not the first time DiDonato has played a Handel heroine at the Barbican, but her chemistry with Maxim Emelyanychev and Il Pomo d’Oro has to be heard to be believed – that’ll be why their recent album together, War and Peace, won a Gramophone Award. This is Baroque opera at its most passionate and its most brilliant: an unquestioned highlight of our Il Pomo d’Oro focus.

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The performance is expected to finish around 10pm.

Programme

  • Handel   Agrippina (concert performance)

Performers

  • Il Pomo d’Oro  
  • Maxim Emelyanychev   harpsichord/director
  • Joyce DiDonato   Agrippina
  • Elsa Benoit*   Poppea
  • Xavier Sabata**   Ottone
  • Franco Fagioli   Nerone
  • Luca Pisaroni   Claudio
  • Andrea Mastroni   Pallante
  • Carlo Vistoli***   Narciso
  • Biagio Pizzuti   Lesbo

*Please note Kathryn Lewek is replaced by Elsa Benoit in the role of Poppea for this performance.

**Please note Marie-Nicole Lemieux is replaced by Xavier Sabata in the role of Ottone for this performance.

***Please note Jakub Jósef Orlinski is replaced by Carlo Vistoli in the role of Narciso for this performance

 

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