Lawrence Zazzo - Coronato il crin d'alloro

Agrippina

Ottone: Lawrence Zazzo

Concerto Koln,
René Jacobs

TCE, Parigi, 2004

Category:

Music

Tags:

• countertenor
• handel
• haendel

[wellbn1]

Ahaha Ottone sembra il capitano di una nave da crociera gay!

[jovi1715]

@wellbn1 AHAHAHAHAHA

[Angelos1975GR]

Coronato il crin dalloro,

Io saro nel Campidoglio,

Ma piu bramo Il bel chadoro

Che non Fo corona e soglio

Excellent performance and stage settings. Bravo

[drezjel]

I've seen this opera 3 times, I just went back to it twice because it was so good.

Rene Jacobs is outstanding, as were the singers. The director made some bold choices, but was able to hold the attention of the audience during the whole show (more than 3hours if I'm not mistaken). Sometimes moving, sometimes funny, but in the whole a very balanced, entertaining and moving opera. Great work according to me!

[Ratzfourtyfour]

Another great opera killed by a pretentious cretin director. He should direct puppet theaters at the carnival for kids, he might get a laugh there with crap like that.

[NedRorem]

@MoscowMaestro Poor silly Handel! (By the way, Agrippina is probably the best opera libretto he ever set to music) I'm not criticising the choice of not setting the opera in the ancient Rome or with 18th century costumes. Nor am I saying that this is a bad production. But I wonder why almost all the modern Handel productions copy one another in poking fun at every character and why all are set in the first half of 20th century.

[MoscowMaestro]

@NedRorem Maybe COMPOSERS are mostly IGNORANTS for writing such silly garbage!!!

[MoscowMaestro]

@NedRorem But in Handel's own time all of the operas were costumed in the C18th, regardless of the original period - with just a few details (a crown - for a king; a mitre for a bishop etc). So this argument doesn't hold water.

[NedRorem]

BUT I was criticising the general "look" of the production. Why today so many Handel productions I see are set in the 1920s, 30s or 40s??? And even if they are not, they share the same aesthetics: soldiers, marines, party dresses, etc... and, most of all, a general comic feeling, that makes fun of Handel music and librettos. It has not much sense, it is not funny and it has become so cliché.

But I can agree with you, this production is very well sung, played and acted.

[NedRorem]

I've seen many other pieces of this production here on YouTube. It's very well done and much rehearsed. I would love to see such productions here in Italy, where most opera stagings are just concerts with costumes.

BUT