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Robert Tanitch reviews Handel’s Agrippina online

Handel was 24 years old when Agrippina premiered in Venice in 1710. The opera is a popular mixture of gorgeous music, political satire and bedroom farce; and it’s very, very funny. David McVicar’s mod ...

andrew 1089 views 0 likes Mar 25, 2021

Robert Tanitch reviews Glyndebourne’s Giulio Cesare on line

William Shakespeare. John Dryden. George Frideric Handel. Bernard Shaw. Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. They have all been there. It was probably a mistake on my part to go straight from David Mc ...

andrew 1503 views 0 likes Aug 14, 2020