John Eliot Gardiner: Handel Agrippina
Labels: Handel, John Eliot Gardiner, Opera, PlaylistsConductor - John Eliot Gardiner
Orchestra - English Baroque Soloists
Agrippina - Della Jones
Nerone - Derek Lee Ragin
Poppea - Donna Brown
Claudio - Alastair Miles
Ottone - Michael Chance
Pallante - George Mosley
Narciso - Jonathan Peter Kenny
Lesbo - Julian Clarkson
Giunone - Anne Sofie von Otter
"Agrippina" was one of Handel's earliest operas (composed at the very young age of 24) and one of his biggest first successes (the opera opened with a run of 27 successive nights of performance in Venice which was an extraordinarily long run at that time).
