Agrippina The Grange

With her husband apparently drowned at sea a scheming empress secures the throne for her son from another marriage But the commander of the army has other ideas and then the emperor returns very much alive The inspired vision of director Walter Sutcliffe and designer Jon Bausor brings to life the humour and egomania of one of operas most outrageous leading women The youthful Handel packed Agrippina with the full range of his astonishing imagination setting a libretto at once hilarious moving and clever Handels music is bursting with originality and fun as well as carefully considered moments of eyewatering beauty