Hanging out with the ‘so called Agrippina’. In this example, it looks like one of us had had a nose job, but I’m not about to name names!

🏛 MAN Napoli, inv. 6190

#History #AncientRome #Agrippina @histodons @antiquidons @archaeodons

Found a certain ‘so-called’ Agrippina bust at MAN Napoli! Very excited to hang out with such an extraordinary figure from Rome’s early imperial period.

🏛 MANN, inv. 6190 #AncientRome #History #Agrippina @histodons @antiquidons @archaeodons

The #Drottningholm #Agrippina for #OperaVision is an utter joy musically, visually and dramatically. Top notch videography too. A great cast of singers incl. #Hallenberg and #DeSá and a wonderfully airheaded Poppæa from #Malemi. Watch "AGRIPPINA Handel – Drottningholm Palace Theatre" on YouTube
https://youtu.be/0K-l5bo7GBs

Bust of Agrippina the Younger, sister of Caligula, wife of Claudius, mother of Nero - taking ‘the woman behind the man’ concept to its limits 😝😳 at National Museum in Warsaw, AD 50-54, #classics #agrippina

Reading Barrett's biography of Agrippina the Younger, wife of Claudius, mother of Nero. Fascinating stuff but oh so many characters to keep track of and figure out who is who.... Here she is eternalised in stone crowning her son Nero in Aphrodisias, Turkey. #classics #Agrippina

Went to Birmingham and Midlands Institute library & waiting for v knowledgeable (& witty) librarian, spotted this book when walked into library - dad’s favourite poet John #betjeman (so apt) & signed by #johnpiper.
The library wild & wonderful, including early 19thC books wrapped in newspaper in 1977. 😱. One on Agrippina from 1804 - my favourite Roman - and written by regency female educator & writer Elizabeth Hamilton.
#library #oldbooks #betjeman #doverbeach #romans #agrippina #books

Went to Birmingham and Midlands Institute library & waiting for v knowledgeable (& witty) librarian, spotted this book when walked into library - dad’s favourite poet John #betjeman (so apt) & signed by #johnpiper.
The library wild & wonderful, including early 19thC books wrapped in newspaper in 1977. 😱. One on Agrippina from 1804 - my favourite Roman - and written by regency female educator & writer Elizabeth Hamilton.
#library #oldbooks #betjeman #doverbeach #romans #agrippina #books

#Agrippina is on WLIW4/All-Arts in David McVicar's Met production of Georg Friederich Händel's #opera about love & power with Harry Bicket conducting; the great Handelian Joyce DiDonato steals the show as the power-hungry empress; here she is singing "Favorevol la sorte oggi m'arride... Ogni vento":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC3f2k4PFqg
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/gp-at-the-met-agrippina-about-the-opera/11447/
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/07/arts/music/met-opera-agrippina-review.html