The Coronation of Poppea* charts one torrid day around 60AD during which the Emperor Nero supplants the virtuous Empress Ottavia with his mistress, Poppea. Virtue appears to be punished and greed ...

From the Grand Theatre in Leeds, Monteverdi's historical opera The Coronation of Poppea.

The Coronation of Poppea The second night of the weekend music festival was given over to Monteverdi's Coronation of Poppea. During the Second World War a record sold one-and-a-half million copies ...

There’s some fine singing to be found in the new production of Claudio Monteverdi’s “Poppea” from IN Series. Let’s start there. Composed in 1642, “L’incoronazione di Poppea” was ...

DIVA DRAMA Soprano Shawnette Sulker as Poppea scandalizes in WEO’s ‘The Coronation of Poppea.’ Photo courtesy of West Edge Opera. Not often can an opera season be touted that way—unless it ...

Jonathan Littell revived Monteverdis baroque and decadent opera Lincoronazione di Poppea in a modern and ... and create a background music The Coronation shatters the filmoperas cliché only ...

The 2025 Festival opens with Cappella Mediterranea’s concert production of Monteverdi’s Coronation of Poppea, and features performances by pianist George Li, acclaimed soprano Mary Bevan with ...