Handel Opera Cycle

Presented by Penny Gore. The conclusion of Handel's masterpiece Agrippina, part of a complete cycle of the composer's operas. Handel: Agrippina, Act 3 Agrippina ...... Della Jones (soprano) Claudius, her second husband and Emperor of Rome ...... Alastair Miles (bass) Nero, her son ...... Derek Lee Ragin (countertenor) Poppea, everybody's mistress ...... Donna Brown (soprano) Otho, army commander ...... Michael Chance (countertenor) Pallas, Agrippina's sidekick ...... George Mosley (bass) Narcissus, Agrippina's other sidekick ...... Jonathan Peter Kenny (countertenor) Lesbus, Claudius' servant ...... Julian Clarkson (bass) Juno, the goddess ...... Anne Sofie von Otter (alto) John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) English Baroque Soloists.