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Joyce DiDonato as Agrippina and Franco Fagioli as Nerone in Agrippina, The Royal Opera © 2019 ROH. Photograph by Bill Cooper

Your Reaction: What did you think of Handel's Agrippina 2019?

Audience and press reviews of The Royal Opera's production of Handel's early operatic success, directed by Barrie Kosky.

ByBecky Black (Social Media Editor)

Tuesday 24 September 2019, 10.38am

Witty production, imaginative set, glorious singing and playing - a fantastic evening! Thank you. #ROHagrippina
— gillian smith (@gesmith19) September 24, 2019

#ROHagrippina has to be the highlight of this year: spectacular production, amazing coloraturas, and how many frocks the protagonists have???!!!
— Wisdom Hill (@Scarlet2046) September 23, 2019

Amazed by how contemporary #ROHagrippina felt to me. I suppose breathtaking singing, beautiful music, and plots about political deception never go out of date.
— Andrew Clark (@AndrewClarkArch) September 23, 2019

Production photo of Agrippina, The Royal Opera © 2019 ROH. Photograph by Bill Cooper

Outrageously well sung #ROHagrippina. Fagioli, Crowe and Davies in fabulous voice and DiDonato predictably stealing it. Emelyanychev's conducting is fresh, beautiful, exciting - OAE sounded glorious. The Kosky production is loads of fun. If you like Handel, go.
— Mark Stobbs (@GrumpyOperaFan) September 23, 2019

Fun, vivid and exhilarating performance/ production with gorgeous music. There was not a second to be bored in this 3.5+ hour-long opera.
#ROHAgrippina
— Yosh M (@yoshkosh10) September 23, 2019

I enjoyed Agrippina @BarbicanCentre in May, but the staged version #ROHagrippina really brings the drama to life. (For a start there's much more snogging!) @JoyceDiDonato wonderful as always, @LucyCroweSop fabulous in lemon!
— Ian Jones (@hmmrsmth) September 23, 2019

Eric Jurenas as Narcisco and Joyce DiDonato as Agrippina in Agrippina, The Royal Opera © 2019 ROH. Photograph by Bill Cooper

Press reviews:

The Telegraph ★★★★

Broadway World ★★★★

Evening Standard ★★★★

The Stage ★★★★

The Guardian ★★★★

The Times ★★★★

The Arts Desk ★★★

Bachtrack ★★★

What did you think of Agrippina? Let us know by using #ROHagrippina, or by commenting below.

Agrippina runs until 11 October 2019. Tickets are still available.

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