Handel - Agrippina
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RecommendedJoyce DiDonato (Agrippina), Elsa Benoit (Poppea), Luca Pisaroni (Claudio), Franco Fagioli (Nerone), Jakub Józef Orliński (Ottone), Andrea Mastroni (Pallante), Carlo Vistoli (Narciso), Biagio Pizzuti (Lesbo), Marie-Nicole Lemieux (Giunone)
Il Pomo d'Oro, Maxim Emelyanychev
This Agrippina jostles for top place among the opera’s complete recordings. Joyce DiDonato is matchless in the title role, most other cast members likewise outstrip their rivals and their vocal... —
Awards:
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Record Review, 11th January 2020, Record of the Week
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Presto Recording of the Week, 31st January 2020
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2020, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2020, Opera Choice
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Female Singer of the Year (DiDonato)
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Conductor of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Winner - Opera
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Opera
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Grammy Awards, 63rd Awards (2021), Nominee - Best Opera Recording
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Handel: Arias and dances from Alcina & Agrippina
Karina Gauvin (soprano)
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Jeanne Lamon
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Handel: Agrippina
Ulrike Schneider (Agrippina), João Fernandes (Claudio), Christopher Ainslie (Ottone), Jake Arditti (Nerone), Ida Falk Winland (Poppea), Ross Ramgobin (Pallante), Owen Willetts (Narciso) & Ronaldo Steiner (Lesbo)
Festspielorchester Göttingen, Laurence Cummings
Cummings focuses on the excitement of live production: with furious tempos, eloquent silences and spurts to the finish line, he and the band are dramatic from first measure to last. Cummings... —
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Véronique Gens (Agrippina), Philippe Jaroussky (Nerone), Ingrid Perruche (Poppea), Nigel Smith (Claudio), Thierry Grégoire (Ottone), Bernard Deletré (Pallante), Fabrice Di Falco (Narciso), Alain Buet (Lesbo)
La Grande Ecurie et La Chambre du Roy, Jean-Claude Malgoire
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Handel: Agrippina
Sally Bradshaw, Lisa Saffer, Drew Minter, Wendy Hill, Nicholas Isherwood, Ralf Popken, Michael Dean, Gloria Banditelli, Béla Szilágyi
Capella Savaria, Nicholas McGegan
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Della Jones, Alastair Miles, Derek Lee Ragin, Donna Brown, Michael Chance, Anne Sofie von Otter
English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
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Handel: Agrippina
Alexandrina Pendatchanska (Agrippina), Jennifer Rivera (Nerone), Sunhae Im (Poppea), Bejun Mehta (Ottone), Marcos Fink (Claudio), Neal Davies (Pallante), Dominique Visse (Mago Narciso) & Daniel Schmutzhard (Lesbo)
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, René Jacobs
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Véronique Gens (Agrippina), Philippe Jaroussky (Nerone), Ingrid Perruche (Poppea), Nigel Smith (Claudio), Thierry Grégoire (Ottone), Bernard Deletré (Pallante), Fabrice Di Falco (Narciso), Alain Buet (Lesbo)
La Grande Ecurie et la Chambre du Roy, Jean-Claude Malgoire
Fisbach's production gives an amusing account, respectful yet inventive, of librettist Vincenzo Grimani's look at the shenanigans of ancient Rome. Agrippina shares three characters with L'incoronazione... —
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Handel: Agrippina
Agrippina Annemarie Kremer - soprano, Poppea Renate Arends - soprano, Nerone Michael Hart-Davis – tenor, Ottone Quirijn de Lang - baritone, Claudius Piotr Micinski – bass, Narcissus Clint van der Linde - alto, Pallante Robbert Muuse - baritone & Lesbo Jan Alofs - bass, Eva Buchmann - stage director
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Patricia Bardon (Agrippina), Jake Arditti (Nerone), Danielle de Niese (Poppea), Filippo Mineccia (Ottone), Mika Kares (Claudio), Damien Pass (Pallante), Tom Verney (Narciso), Christoph Siedl (Lesbo)
Balthasar Neumann Ensemble, Thomas Hengelbrock, Robert Carsen
Carsen’s production…is a paradox that is simultaneously sophisticated and clumsy…On the other hand, [he] presents characters, their interactions and motivations with cleverness, wit and flawless... —
