Soprano Jane Redding makes her fourth appearance with the Virginia Opera as the glamorous Poppea in Handel’s fast-paced farce, “Agrippina.”

“I like my character very much, although I didn’t expect to at first,” Redding says. “I thought she’d be a bimbo, but that isn’t the case. She really understands her place in the palace society and knows how to capitalize on it. She is gorgeous, smart, and uses her sex appeal and assets to get what she wants. The men may be incontrol, but the women have the power.