Name: L'incoronazione di Poppea
Start: 2022-03-20T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-03-26T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Grand Théâtre

Organization

Stage director

Alain Françon

Lighting designer

Jean-Pascal Pracht

Costume designer

Marie La Roca

Set designer

Jacques Gabelle

Conductor

Vincent Dumestre

Soprano

Marine Chagnon

Poppea

Countertenor

Fernando Escalona

Nero

Lucie Peyramaure

Octavia

Léopold Gilloots-Laforge

Otho

Bass

Alejandro Baliñas Vieites

Seneca

Contralto

Léo Fernique

Arnalta

Martina Russomanno

Drusilla

Fortune

Kseniia Proshina

Love

The valet

Lise Nougier

Octavia's Nurse

Virtue

Tenor

Léo Vermot Desroches

Lucan

Friends of Seneca

Two soldiers

Yiorgo Ioannou

Mercury

Lictor

Thomas Ricart

Liberto

Tribuno

Singer

Consoli

Choreographer

Caroline Marcadé

Assistant to the Musical Direction

Elisabeth Geiger

Athénée Théâtre Louis-Jouvet

Opéra National de Paris

Opéra de Dijon

Orchestra

Le Poème Harmonique

L'incoronazione di Poppea -  (The Coronation of Poppea)

Dijon

France

Grand Théâtre

Public

The Coronation of Poppea

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L'incoronazione di Poppea Monteverdi

🪜👸 "Le Couronnement de Poppée", ou comment trancher un vieux débat et démontrer par les faits quelle puissance, de la Fortune ou de la Vertu, préside aux d...

The Coronation of Poppea | Monteverdi | Trailer

The Incoronazione di Poppea , or how to settle an old debate and demonstrate by facts what power, of Fortune or Virtue, presides over human destinies. Answer in music: neither, because Love (hear: Desire) surpasses them both, to the great happiness of Emperor Nero…

When he composed his final opera in 1642, Monteverdi had more than three decades of experience in the genre which he helped found. From his Orfeo, he never ceased to deepen the relationship between text and music, working to perfect the qualities of dramatic and psychological expressiveness of the score. The libretto that Giovanni Francesco Busenello drew from the Latin historian Tacitus opens up new fields of exploration for him. With a composition that is both firm and supple, the work is of a shimmering diversity: alternating the sublime and the comic, the nights of Eros and those of Thanatos, its distribution extends from the poorly awakened sentinel to the old cynical nurse up to deities such as Minerva, Mercury or Love in person, through the flower of high Roman society: Nero, his wife Octavia whom he intends to repudiate in favor of the beautiful Poppea, Otho , her titular lover, and Drusilla, who intends to take advantage of the situation to win him back.The Incoronazione di Poppea is a work of dizzying amoralism, where the power of passions and power is displayed without a mask. Desire and violence go free, as if nothing could resist music and love, as long as they last…

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