
NEW PRODUCTION FOR DNO
Dates
13-28 Jan 2024
Location
Dutch National Opera & Ballet, Main Stage
Running time
3:55, incl. 1 interval
Tickets
From € 22

In the clutches of a power-hungry empress
Nero’s mother Agrippina will do everything she can to overthrow the Roman emperor Claudius and put her son in power. This Baroque opera about huge ambitions, political intrigue and the crooked path to power is one of Handel’s strongest early works.
Photo: Marta Syrko
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General ticket sales for Agrippina start on 24 August 2023 at 12.00 midday. Want to make sure you don’t miss this moment? Then sign up for the ticket alert, and we’ll send you a reminder as soon as ticket sales begin.
Performance information
Opera in three acts
Sung in Italian
Libretto Vincenzo Grimani
Musical direction Ottavio Dantone
Stage direction Barrie Kosky
Set design Rebecca Ringst
Costume design Klaus Bruns
Lighting design Joachim Klein
Dramaturgy Nikolaus Stenitzer
Agrippina Stéphanie d’Oustrac
Nerone John Holiday
Poppea Ying Fang
Claudio Gianluca Buratto
Ottone Tim Mead
Narciso Jake Ingbar*
Orchestra Accademia Bizantina
* Dutch National Opera Studio
Coproduction with Bayerische Staatsoper (Munich), Royal Opera House (London) and Hamburgische Staatsoper
SENSUALITY, POWER AND BAROQUE
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General ticket sales start on 24 August 2023 at 12.00 midday.

Accademia Bizantina Orchestra
The Italian ensemble Accademia Bizantina was founded in 1983 to play music ‘like a large string quartet’. Since 1996, the ensemble has developed into a force to be reckoned with in baroque music, and in 2021 it was nominated Orchestra of the Year by the British magazine Gramaphone. The ensemble is equally at home in the opera house and the concert hall. It recently released its first production under its own label, Rinaldo by George Frideric Handel. The orchestra is known for the chamber music ambience of its performances. This season, Accademia Bizantina will perform for the first time with Dutch National Opera in Agrippina.

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