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Agrippina / George Frideric Handel.
Van Pelt - Ormandy Music and Media Center CD 13460
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- Format:
- Sound recording
- Author/Creator:
- Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759.
- Language:
- English
- French
- German
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Operas.
- Genre:
- Sound recordings.
- Operas.
- Physical Description:
- 3 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- 4 3/4 in.
- Place of Publication:
- Arles : Harmonia Mundi, [2011]
- Language Note:
- Sung in Italian.
- System Details:
- digital
- optical
- 1.4 m/s
- digital recording
- 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.
- Participant:
- Alexandrina Pendatchanska, soprano (Agrippina) ; Jennifer Rivera, mezzo-soprano (Nerona) ; Sunhae Im, soprano (Poppea) ; Bejun Mehta, countertenor (Ottone) ; Marcos Fink, bass-baritone (Claudio) ; Neal Davies, bass-baritone (Pallante) ; Dominique Visse, countertenor (Mago Narciso) ; Daniel Schumtzhard, bass (Lesbo) ; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin ; René Jacobs, conductor.
- Notes:
- Harmonia Mundi: HMC 902088.90 (HMC 902088--HMC 902090).
- "Drama per musica in tre atti"--Container.
- Libretto di Vincenzo Grimani.
- Recorded July 2010, Teldex Studio Berlin.
- 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.
- OCLC:
- 757079466
- Publisher Number:
- 3149020208823
- 03149020208823 gtin-14
- HMC 902088 Harmonia Mundi
- HMC 902089 Harmonia Mundi
- HMC 902090 Harmonia Mundi
- HMC 902088.90 Harmonia Mundi
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