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• Event Name: Handel's Agrippina
  Article: Boston Lyric Opera handles Handel with aplomb
  Boston Herald - Mar 15, 2011
  By Keith Powers

  Handel is rolling over in his grave. And audiences are loving it.
  
  Boston Lyric Opera set the great composer’s “Agrippina” on its...
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  Handel is rolling over in his grave. And audiences are loving it.
  
  Boston Lyric Opera set the great composer’s “Agrippina” on its head Friday evening at the Shubert Theatre, staging a slapstick take on the seriocomic opera that nearly drowned its terrific singing and playing in a sea of sight-gags and goofy exchanges.
  
  Let’s face it, Handel asked for it. Anyone who creates a bedroom farce of an opera based on the prehistory of Nero — “Agrippina” details his mother’s attempt to place the burning fiddler on the Roman throne, long before he became the Hitler of his day — begs to be sent up. And that’s just what the BLO did, realizing director Lillian Groag’s thoroughly comedic genius.
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• Event Name: Handel's Agrippina
  Article: Don’t miss this one, under any circumstances!
  EDGE Boston - Mar 15, 2011
  By Ed Tapper

  Having only last month mounted The Emperor of Atlantis, a dark, spare opera composed in the horrific confines of a Nazi concentration camp, Boston...
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  Having only last month mounted The Emperor of Atlantis, a dark, spare opera composed in the horrific confines of a Nazi concentration camp, Boston Lyric Opera is now transporting us to the glittering, sumptuous Baroque opera stage. Their vehicle is Handel’s 1709 Agrippina, the composer’s first, full-blown Italian opera. Could the company successfully shift gears, and bring off a work of such complexity and virtuosity? The answer is a resounding yes! And BLO’s gamble has proven one of their greatest triumphs in recent seasons.
  
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• Event Name: Handel's Agrippina
  "EDGE BOSTON REVIEW 3/12"
  Review posted by: BLO Public Relations from Boston. MA, Mar 14, 2011
  

  Having only last month mounted The Emperor of Atlantis, a dark, spare opera composed in the horrific confines of a Nazi concentration camp, Boston Lyric Opera is now transporting us to the... Expand

  Having only last month mounted The Emperor of Atlantis, a dark, spare opera composed in the horrific confines of a Nazi concentration camp, Boston Lyric Opera is now transporting us to the glittering, sumptuous Baroque opera stage. Their vehicle is Handel’s 1709 Agrippina, the composer’s first, full-blown Italian opera. Could the company successfully shift gears, and bring off a work of such complexity and virtuosity? The answer is a resounding yes! And BLO’s gamble has proven one of their greatest triumphs in recent seasons. :: EDGE Boston: http://bit.ly/ikfceZ Collapse

• Event Name: Handel's Agrippina
  "BOSTON GLOBE REVIEW 3/14"
  Review posted by: BLO Public Relations from Boston, MA, Mar 14, 2011
  

  Handel’s ‘Agrippina’ stylishly comic in Boston Lyric Opera production - The Boston Globe http://t.co/atHbAYN

  Handel’s ‘Agrippina’ stylishly comic in Boston Lyric Opera production - The Boston Globe http://t.co/atHbAYN