Some doubts revolve around the musical drama heard in Venice in the winter of 1642-43. What did it sound like, on what instruments? Who was the composer — if not Monteverdi (as is generally but not ...

Monteverdi’s powerful, erotically charged opera of passion and duplicity, in which Nerone rejects his wife Ottavia for the alluring attractions of Poppea, first performed in Venice during Carnival ...

The cuts may disorientate Monteverdi affecionados. There’s also a bit of reordering, and no proper coronation. Albery’s new translation contains some excruciating couplets: Poppea is rhymed with ...

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 ...

Presenting the opera "The Coronation of Poppea," Monteverdi's 1643 masterpiece about sex and power in imperial Rome, is a very different sort of undertaking from staging something by Mozart or Verdi.

[CAPTIONING MADE POSSIBLE BY WISN-TV] EDEN: A NEW IMAGINING OF A CLASSIC OPERA MASTERPIECE PREMIERES IN MILWAUKEE LATER THIS MONTH, AMANDA CRIDER, ONE OF THE STARS OF THE CORONATION OF POPPEA IS HERE ...

Claudio Monteverdi's The Coronation of Poppea has opened at Opera Theatre St. Louis, and it's the kind of thing that ensures the company's place among the great opera companies of the world. This is ...

Times change, people don’t. The Florentine Opera Company opened a two-weekend run of Claudio Monteverdi’s opera “The Coronation of Poppea” (1643) on Friday evening. The plot, a quagmire of ...

Lyric Opera presents The Coronation of Poppea; Monteverdi's passionate baroque drama, in which greed and thirst for power take no prisoners, at Chapel off Chapel from July 15-22. Commemorating the ...

Some doubts revolve around the musical drama heard in Venice in the winter of 1642-43. What did it sound like, on what instruments? Who was the composer — if not Monteverdi (as is generally but not ...

Pub opera is all the rage. Or so we’re told. OperUpClose’s version of Puccini’s La Bohème won this website’s award for Best Off-West End production, and although I didn’t see it, by and large reports ...