Handel's 'Agrippina' receives comic touch that's just right.(Local)(Opera review)

The Virginian Pilot | January 28, 2007 | Copyright

Byline: LEE TEPLY

BY Lee Teply

Correspondent

It is a given that the Virginia Opera can produce high-quality performances of the standard repertoire. At the Harrison Opera House on Friday evening, it demonstrated - for the second time this season - that it is equally successful with less-familiar operas.

After the troubling contemporary emotions of Carlisle Floyd's "Susannah" in November, the company reached back to the master of Baroque opera, George Frideric Handel, to try out one of his very first works.

"Agrippina," which ...

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