Agrippina the Elder
Despite the division into two acts, the work is described on the manuscript as a serenata, and it lacks the drama of conventional opera seria. Instead it is a work of rejoicing and prophecy, based around the historical figure of Germanicus Caesar and his victory over the German chieftain Arminius. Another character is Germanico's wife Agrippina the Elder – they were the parents of Agrippina the Younger, who is the central protagonist of Handel's later Italian opera "Agrippina" of 1710.