Link: https://youtu.be/fcVvH5NFJ_8
Okay, I know, by now you guys are extremely tired of my Handel obsession. But I wanted to feature this performance, which I didn't wind up using in my Baroque week, because it includes not one but two stellar mezzo performances. They are very different, demonstrating again the versatility of the mezzo voice.
Nerone, originally written for a male castrato, is sung here by Kate Lindsey in a trouser role. I have seen the role sung quite well by countertenors, but personally I think it's a better fit for a mezzo both because of the music and because of the nature of the character. Lindsey's amazing acting as a punk, coked-up (yes there's cocaine and lots of it), attitude-y teenage boy really makes the entire performance what it is. She doesn't hold anything back, and that goes for her singing too. Rich, sometimes nasal but intentionally so, and agile, her singing commands the stage. And we have to mention the moment when she does a full side plank and then sings an entire verse of an aria in that position.
Agrippina, on the other hand, was a role intentionally written for a mezzo, and very much befitting the mezzo stereotype. She is both a femme fatale and a powerful woman, and she uses her power and her sexuality to manipulate the entire court of Claudius into giving her what she wants. Her music is rich, flowing, and always malevolent-sounding. Similar to later mezzo roles, it includes a lot of leaps from top to bottom of the singer's range. Joyce DiDonato, previously featured this week as Rosina, now shows us another side of her abilities. As wonderful as she is in Bel Canto, I personally prefer her in these kinds of darker Baroque roles. I think her voice and her acting only truly come up to their full potential as Agrippina, Dejanira, Bradamente, and other similar roles.
If you've never seen a Baroque opera before, I would definitely recommend this performance for a first. The plot is compelling, and the engaging and modernized production makes it very accessible.
Agrippina (Mechanicus Defence Cohort) - 2000 Points. 10 Starting CP
Dominus - 80
Warlord: Learnings of the Genetor
Free Relic: Forgefire (the relic Volkite Blaster)
Tech-Priest Manipulus - 70 and 1CP
Locum: Prime Hermeticon
Tech-Priest Manipulus - 70 and 1CP
Locum: Cacophanous Leadership (Obsec Aura, with Extremis Sentinel models counting as Double Obsec)
Servitors - 30
10x Kataphron Breachers with Heavy Arc Rifles and Hydraulic Claws - 350
10x Kataphron Breachers with Heavy Arc Rifles and Hydraulic Claws - 350
10x Kataphron Breachers with Heavy Arc Rifles and Hydraulic Claws - 350
10x Kataphron Breachers with Heavy Arc Rifles and Hydraulic Claws - 350
10x Kataphron Breachers with Heavy Arc Rifles and Hydraulic Claws - 350
Just spam Citation of Ruin (shoot into combat with no BS penalty) and Fresh Converts until no one wants to play with you.
Keep moving forwards. If the front row of Breachers get tagged and they can't shoot/kill their way out, remove them with Fresh Converts (3CP) since you have no other use for your 10 starting CP, shoot the offending enemy assault units until you overwhelm your opponent in a mass of meaty Kataphron tractor meat.
The -1 damage in your deployment zone means that it's really hard for the enemy to 'alpha-strike' turn 1, and once you reach an objective, it is similarly hard to shift you off it.
It's like the Mechanicus version of 27 Beasts of Nurgle, except instead of 27, there are 50 of them, they come back to life at full strength for 3CP and they can shoot and are double obsec.
Sidenote: Putting down 50 Kataphron Breachers would cost you approx $986 USD.
Edit: Hydraulic Claws instead of Arc Claws as one of the rules of the Defence Cohort is that the units get to Set to Defend/Hold Steady for free. So you always select Set to Defend for the +1 to hit in melee, which offsets the -1 to hit from the Hydraulic claw. You will never hit first, but you will be hitting on Strength 10 with D3 damage.
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