Aryssa Leigh Burrs, center left, and Caitlin Wood, center right, star as Emperor Nero (or Nerone) and Poppea in the IN Series production of Monteverdi’s “Poppea” at Dupont Underground on Friday.

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. In the allegorical opening scene of Monteverdi's last opera, The Coronation of Poppea, Virtue and ...

It may date from opera’s cradle days but don’t be deterred: ETO’s production cuts Monteverdi’s sublime but lengthy score by a third and rattles through L’incoronazione di Poppea‘s intrigues with the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Nero's ancient Rome and Jazz Age New York were similar. That is the message of “The Comet/Poppea,” an intriguing combination of Monteverdi’s 1643 opera “L’incoronazione di Poppea” and ...

"Without doubt the sexiest piece ever written," is how director Robert Carsen described L'Incoronazione di Poppea in a recent interview. His new staging of Monteverdi's masterpiece, however, though at ...

When Raymond Leppard’s 1962 Glyndebourne version introduced L'Incoronazione di Poppea to the 20th-century opera audience, with a large modern orchestra and its subtle dissonances smoothed out, the ...

David Bates’s conducting leaves little flexibility and freedom for the voices to create their own drama out of Busenello’s vivid text Telegraph Opera Critic, Nicholas Kenyon, is an author and academic ...

There is nothing more embarrassing than a tardy concertgoer noisily clambering towards their front-row seat. But for Glyndeboure On Tour’s The Coronation Of Poppea this is the first of many thrilling ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. The most daring moment in Kate Cherry's fine production of Monteverdi's final opera comes towards ...

Monteverdi’s late opera gets a thrilling treatment by Opera North but the South Bank must endure a modern muddle Almost everything about The Coronation of Poppea is uncertain – it is not known for ...

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