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Agrippina

Title
Agrippina [sound recording] / George Frideric Handel.
Author
Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759.
Publication
Arles : Harmonia Mundi, p2011.

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Additional Authors
  • Grimani, Vincenzo.
  • Penda, Alex, 1970-
  • Rivera, Jennifer.
  • Im, Sunhae, 1976-
  • Mehta, Bejun.
  • Fink, Marcos.
  • Davies, Neal.
  • Visse, Dominique.
  • Schmutzhard, Daniel.
  • Jacobs, René.
  • Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin. prf
Description
3 sound discs (3 hours, 23 minutes) : digital; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
Composed in 1709, Agrippina is an opera seria in three acts on a libretto by Cardinal Vincenzo Grimani. The opera tells the story of Agrippina, the mother of Nero, as she plots the downfall of the Roman Emperor Claudius and the installation of her son as emperor. Grimani's libretto, considered one of the best that Handel set, is full of topical political allusions. Some believe that it reflects the rivalry between Grimani and Pope Clement XI. Jacobs performs the work in its original version.
Uniform Title
Agrippina
Alternative Title
Agrippina
Subject
Operas
Note
  • Harmonia Mundi: HMC 902088.90 (HMC 902088--HMC 902090).
  • "Drama per musica in tre atti"--Container.
  • Libretto di Vincenzo Grimani.
  • Compact discs.
  • Program notes by René Jacobs in German with French and English translations, synopsis in English, French and German, and libretto with parallel English, French and German translations (258 p. : ill., ports.) laid in container.
Event (note)
  • Recorded July 2010, Teldex Studio Berlin.
Language (note)
  • Sung in Italian.
LCCN
3149020208823
OCLC
  • ocn757079466
  • 757079466
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries