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 ...

COMING UP. LOOKING AHEAD ON THIS WEEKEND’S "ARTS AVENUE," THE FLORENTINE OPERA COMPANY WILL DEBUT A NEW AND ORIGINAL PRODUCTION BUILT RIGHT HERE IN MILWAUKE JOINING ME NOW IS OUR FRIEND FROM THE OPERA ...

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.

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 ...

[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 ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The Florentine Opera Company's March production of The Coronation of Poppea ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Claudio Monteverdi's The Coronation of Poppea has opened at Opera Theatre ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This year’s spring production by the UCSB Opera Theatre stands at the far end of the operatic timeline. The Coronation of Poppea (1643), Claudio Monteverdi’s final work, not only heralds from the ...