Name: L'incoronazione di Poppea
Start: 2008-05-18T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2008-07-04T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Opera House

Organization

Zanger

Soprano

Tamara Mumford

Ottavia

Marie Arnet

Drusilla

Bass

Paolo Battaglia

Seneca

Contralto

Dominique Visse

La Nutrice di Ottavia

Claire Ormshaw

Damigella

Countertenor

Lucia Cirillo

Il valletto

Dirigent

Emmanuelle Haïm

Regisseur

Robert Carsen

Set designer

Michael Levine

Kostuum ontwerper

Constance Hoffman

Licht ontwerper

Peter van Praet

Trevor Scheunemann

Mercurio

Patrick Schramm

Littore

Tenor

Andrew Tortise

Lucano

Due soldati

Peter Gijsbertsen

Liberto

Sonya Yoncheva

La Fortuna

Simona Mihai

La Virtù

Amy Freston

L'Amore

Christophe Dumaux

Ottone

Iestyn Davies

Danielle de Niese

Poppea

Alice Coote

Nerone

Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke

Arnalta

Orchestra

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Others

The Glyndebourne Chorus

Glyndebourne

L'incoronazione di Poppea

Verenigd Koninkrijk

Opera House

Ebert Room

Lewes

An early baroque masterpiece, Monteverdi's L’incoronazione di Poppea was inspired by The Annals by Tacitus and celebrates the love of the emperor Nero and the courtesan Poppea. Filmed at the 2008 Glyndebourne Festival, Robert Carsen’s production brings together Danielle de Niese, Alice Coote and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under the direction of Emmanuelle Haïm.

L’incoronazione di Poppea premiered during carnival season in Venice in 1643, but the story it tells is far from festive. It follows the rise to power of Poppea, the mistress of the emperor Nero, whose unbounded ambition eventually leads her to be crowned as empress at his side. The opera breaks literary traditions, centering its plot around a pair of morally compromised anti-heros, and features strikingly original music, filled with dissonance that strike even today’s audiences as modern.

In his staging of L’incoronazione di Poppea, director Robert Carsen created a stark world dominated by the visual metaphor of crimson drapes that decorate adulterous bedchambers and cloth sadistic tyrants. Stars Alice Coote and Danielle de Niese embody the bloody lovers Nero and Poppea with aplomb, supported by the Glyndebourne Chorus and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under the baton of Emmanuelle Haïm.

L'incoronazione di Poppea Monteverdi

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