Handel: Agrippina

OPERA
MONDAY & SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17 & 22, 2020 (continuing through MARCH 7)
7:30 PM MONDAY
8:00 PM SATURDAY

Metropolitan Opera
30 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan

$30-$460
https://www.metopera.org/season/2019-20-season/agrippina/

Imagine L'Incoronazione di Poppea, played for laughs, focusing on Nero's mother — and chockfull of some of the catchiest music that catchiest of composers, Handel, ever wrote.  Wait, you don't have to imagine it:  it's here.   I can't think of anyone you'd rather hear perform the juicy, camped-up title role than Joyce DiDonato.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Hope that P.J. Clarke's stays open as late as it claims to.