L'incoronazione di Poppea

Composer: Monteverdi, Claudio

Librettist/Text Author: Busenello, Giovanni Francesco

Conductor: Gardiner, John Eliot

Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists

Chorus: Monteverdi Choir

Arnalta / Venere: Richardot, Lucile

Drusilla / Virtu / Pallade: Dennis, Anna

Neron: Kim, Kangmin Justin

Ottavia: Pizzolato, Marianna

Ottone: Vistoli, Carlo

Poppea / Fortuna: Blazikova, Hana

Seneca: Buratto, Gianluca

Costume Designer: De Sabata, Isabella

Costume Designer: Hofstede, Patricia

Lighting Designer: Fisher, Rick

Stage Director: Gardiner, John Eliot

Stage Director: Rooke, Elsa

Television Director: Glas, Sebastian

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Date of Production: 06-2017

Venue: Teatro La Fenice, Venice

Playing Time: 03:12:21

Catalogue Number: OA1346D

UPC: 809478013464

Synopsis

L'incoronazione di Poppea (NTSC)

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Claudio Monteverdi developed the principles of opera with L'Orfeo in the first decade of the 17th-century. At the very end of his life he wrote L'incoronazione di Poppea. The opera marked a decisive move from allegorical and mythic elements towards a historical subject - the love affair between the Roman Emperor Nero and his mistress Poppea. His final masterpiece, where the beauty of the arias vanquished the decadence of the storyline, was first performed in the year of his death.

For decades John Eliot Gardiner has been at the forefront of Monteverdi performance and scholarship, and for the 450th anniversary of Monteverdi's birth in 2017 he conducted all three of the composer's surviving full-length operas. This semi-staged production, recorded in Venice's historical Teatro La Fenice is part of that acclaimed cycle.