Handel: Agrippina

Joyce DiDonato has staked a powerful claim on the multi-faceted title role of Handel’s opera Agrippina. In the words of The Telegraph, she sings it with “authority, grandeur and high style”. She recently performed it to critical acclaim at The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden with Maxim Emelyanychev, Chief Conductor of Il Pomo d’Oro. Joining them on this recording is a cast of established and rising stars that includes Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Franco Fagioli, Luca Pisaroni, Elsa Benoit and Jakub Józef Orlinski.

CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR JOYCE DiDONATO’S AGRIPPINA – LIVE AT THE ROYAL OPERA, SEPTEMBER 2019

“combining tonal radiance with showstopping bravura, is a tour de force” Evening Standard

“Joyce DiDonato is absolute mistress of the title role, singing with authority, grandeur and high style” Daily Telegraph

“Joyce DiDonato is a mezzo at the height of her powers, and she brings force to the title role in this modern take on Handel” Financial Times

“DiDonato’s Agrippina seduces two courtiers and the audience within 10minutes … DiDonato gives her finest performance in this house for years” The Spectator

“Agrippina’s great soul-searching monologue Pensieri searingly sung by DiDonato … I have rarely heard her sing more beautifully than in her aria of reconciliation… DiDonato has done nothing better in this house (ROH)” Sunday Times

“DiDonato is magnificent” Sunday Express

“The star American mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato sizzles and burns in the title role, on peak vocal and dramatic form with a witty array of inspired gestures” The Observer