Claudio Monteverdi – L'incoronazione di Poppea | Full performance at Teatro la Fenice, 2017

From Teatro La Fenice, Venice 2017
L'incoronazione di Poppea
Opera in three acts

Claudio Monteverdi's "L'incoronazione di Poppea" represents a departure from allegorical and mythical elements towards a historical theme: the love affair between the Roman Emperor Nero and his lover Poppea. This masterpiece premiered at Teatro Santi Giovanni e Paolo in 1642, and has become the epitome of Venetian opera.
In 2017, marking the 450th anniversary of opera pioneer Claudio Monteverdi's birth, renowned Monteverdi expert Sir John Eliot Gardiner brought new life to L'incoronazione di Poppea at Venice's iconic Teatro La Fenice. This production celebrates Monteverdi’s genius, highlighting the
groundbreaking creativity of its form, the richness of its harmonies, and the expressive diversity of its melodies.

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0:00:00 Intro
0:01:38 Act I
1:23:16 Act II
2:23:34 Act III

Music by Claudio Monteverdi
Libretto by Giovanni Francesco Busenello

Hana Blažíková – Poppea / Fortuna
Kangmin Justin Kim – Nerone
Marianna Pizzolato – Ottavia
Gianluca Burrato – Seneca
Carlo Vistoli – Ottone
Anna Dennis – Drusilla / Virtu / Pallade
Lucile Richardot – Arnalta / Venere
Silvia Frigato – Amore / Valetto
Furio Zanasi – Soldato I / Liberto
Gareth Treseder – Famigliari
Zachary Wilder – Lucano
Francesca Boncompagni – Damigella
John Taylor Ward – Mercurio / Littore
Michał Czerniawski – Nutrice
Robert Burt – Soldato II

Sir John Eliot Gardiner – Musical Director
Sir John Eliot Gardiner & Elsa Rooke – Directing & Staging

Monteverdi Choir
Hugo Hymas, Graham Neal – Tenors
Samuel Evans, Ben Kazez, Lawrence Wallington – Basses

English Baroque Soloists
Antonio Greco, Paolo Zanzu – Harpsichords & Musical assistants
Kati Debretzeni – Violin I
Iona Davies, Henry Tong, Olivier Webber, Anne Schumann, Henrietta Wayne, Davina Clarke, Alison Bury – Violins II
Fanny Paccoud, Lisa Cochrane, Małgorzata Ziemkiewicz – Violas
Marco Frezzato – Cello
Valerie Botwright – Contrabass
Kinga Gáborjáni – Lirone
David Miller, Alex McCartney, Eligio Luis Quinteiro, Josías Rodríguez Gándara – Chitarrone & Lutes
Györgyi Farkas – Doulcian
Kinga Gáborjáni – Lirone
Rachel Beckett, Catherine Latham – Flutes
Jamie Savan, Frithjof Smith, Richard Thomas – Cornets
Gwyneth Wentink – Harp

Sébastien Glas – Video Director

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