Super performances notably by Italian Anna Bonitatibus as the deceptive and duplicitous Agrippina.
markronan.com, Mark Ronan, 06.2018
Agrippina, Handel – The Grange Festival – ✭✭✭✭ The Stage
Agrippina is established star Anna Bonitatibus, supreme classiness oozing from every vocal phrase.
✭✭✭✭ The Stage, Graham Rogers, 06.2018
Agrippina, Handel – The Grange Festival – Financial Times
Demonstrating how to make every word and note tell, Anna Bonitatibus offered a star turn in the title role, her manipulative matriarch running rings round the other central characters.
Financial Times, George Hall, 06.2018
Agrippina, Handel – The Grange Festival – Mark Aspen
The award winning Italian mezzo has a velvety richness in her vocalisation that suggests the lubricious legerdemain that Agrippina is well-versed in using to her advantage. From her opening recitative, instructing Nerone, “la tua fortuna prender potrai pe’l crine, ed arrestarla”, we see a woman who will use any means, from crocodile tears to knife-in-back, to gain power and keep it.
Mark Aspen wordpress, 06.2018