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• Handel - Agrippina (Combattimento Consort Amsterdam) | DVD | (17/07/2006) from £14.35   |  Saving you £0.64 (4.30%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The immediate success of Handel's early opera 'Agrippina' which was written in 1709 established the young composer's international reputation. It skilfully combines the vocal brilliance and musical vitality that we would expect from the future composer of Messiah with the engaging humour and involving drama that we find in Shakespeare. Composed for an Italian audience when the precocious Handel was still in his early twenties Agrippina gives us a fascinating musical portrayal of the human ambition greed scheming and romance of real historical characters form ancient Rome.