Agrippina

Handel's Agrippina will be performed on the Brno stage for the first time, but the excellent Baroque orchestra Collegium 1704 is returning to the Janáček Theatre for the third time after the very successful Alcina and the Marriage of Figaro. So the audience does not have a difficult choice - the combination of Handel's opera, Collegium 1704 under the baton of Václav Luks and the Brno Opera ensemble - it is a must-see! Political intrigue is a topical topic in every era, and if people in love get caught in the middle of it, it is also an ideal subject for an opera. Cardinal Grimaldi added a political satire full of irony to the libretto, and G. F. Handel gave it drama, humor, despair and love in the music. Agrippina premiered in 1709 in Venice and immediately became the success of the season and Handel's first masterpiece. And it is no wonder that the musical number is a typical Handelian musical hit, depicting individual characters from the all-powerful Agrippina, her childish son Nero, the aging emperor Claudius, the little intriguer Poppaea to the honest Otto in such vivid colors that you feel you can meet them on the street in front of the theater. The title role will be performed by Pavla Vykopalová, who already celebrated great success with Alcina, and the German countertenor Constantin Zimmermann and the Czech countertenor Vojtěch Pelka will also appear here for the first time.