Organization

Singer

Soprano

Tamara Mumford

Octavia

Marie Arnet

Drusilla

Bass

Paolo Battaglia

Seneca

Contralto

Dominique Visse

Octavia's Nurse

Claire Ormshaw

Damsel

Countertenor

Lucia Cirillo

The valet

Conductor

Emmanuelle Haïm

Stage director

Robert Carsen

Set designer

Michael Levine

Costume designer

Constance Hoffman

Lighting designer

Peter van Praet

Trevor Scheunemann

Mercury

Patrick Schramm

Lictor

Tenor

Andrew Tortise

Lucan

Two soldiers

Peter Gijsbertsen

Liberto

Sonya Yoncheva

Fortune

Simona Mihai

Virtue

Amy Freston

Love

Christophe Dumaux

Otho

Iestyn Davies

Danielle de Niese

Poppea

Alice Coote

Nero

Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke

Arnalta

Orchestra

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Others

The Glyndebourne Chorus

Glyndebourne

L'incoronazione di Poppea -  (The Coronation of Poppea)

United Kingdom

Opera House

Ebert Room

Lewes

An early baroque masterpiece, Monteverdi's L’incoronazione di Poppea was inspired by The Annals by Tacitus and celebrates the love of the emperor Nero and the courtesan Poppea. Filmed at the 2008 Glyndebourne Festival, Robert Carsen’s production brings together Danielle de Niese, Alice Coote and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under the direction of Emmanuelle Haïm.

L’incoronazione di Poppea premiered during carnival season in Venice in 1643, but the story it tells is far from festive. It follows the rise to power of Poppea, the mistress of the emperor Nero, whose unbounded ambition eventually leads her to be crowned as empress at his side. The opera breaks literary traditions, centering its plot around a pair of morally compromised anti-heros, and features strikingly original music, filled with dissonance that strike even today’s audiences as modern.

In his staging of L’incoronazione di Poppea, director Robert Carsen created a stark world dominated by the visual metaphor of crimson drapes that decorate adulterous bedchambers and cloth sadistic tyrants. Stars Alice Coote and Danielle de Niese embody the bloody lovers Nero and Poppea with aplomb, supported by the Glyndebourne Chorus and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under the baton of Emmanuelle Haïm.

L'incoronazione di Poppea Monteverdi

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The Coronation of Poppea

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