So you're pining away, feeling sorry for yourself, desperate for your next-season fix of The Sopranos. Why wait? There's plenty of backstabbing, family-values-oriented guilty pleasure available this season with Handel's early opera Agrippina, now playing at the Santa Fe Opera. So what if it's imperial Rome in the reign of Claudius instead of Tony's territory in Newark and West Orange--both of these guys play for keeps, and there's usually a tough broad pulling strings in the background. Like, if it's examples you're after, the previously mentioned Big Roman Mama, Agrippina--sister to ...

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