Johan Reuter Johan Reuter Johan Reuter (born 1969) is a Danish baritone and opera singer. Reuter was born in Copenhagen. He studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Music and at the Royal Danish Opera Academy. He has been a member of the ensemble at the Royal Danish Opera since 1996. His principal appearances at the Royal Danish Opera are the Mozart roles Leporello and Don Giovanni in "Don Giovanni", Figaro in "Le nozze di Figaro", Papageno in "Die Zauberflöte" and Guglielmo in "Così fan tutte", the Verdi roles Posa in "Don Carlo" and the title roles in "Macbeth" and "Simon Boccanegra",
Agrippina (opera) hypocritical; Claudius is pompous, complacent, and something of a buffoon, while Poppaea, the first of Handel's sex kittens, is also a liar and a flirt. The freedmen Pallas and Narcissus are self-serving and salacious. All, however, have some redeeming features, and all have arias that express genuine emotion. The situations in which they find themselves are sometimes comic, but never farcical—like Mozart in the Da Ponte operas, Handel avoids laughing at his characters. In "Agrippina" the "da capo" aria is the musical form used to illustrate character in the context of the opera. The first four arias of the work