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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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- 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