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Boston Lyric Opera handles Handel with aplomb

By Keith Powers / Review
Sunday, March 13, 2011 - Updated 1 year ago
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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.

 
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