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Monteverdi - L’incoronazione di Poppea (DVD) | Chateau de Versailles Spectacles CVS118

Monteverdi - L’incoronazione di Poppea (DVD)

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Label: Chateau de Versailles Spectacles

Cat No: CVS118

Barcode: 3760385430188

Format: DVD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 1st December 2023

Gramophone Editor's Choice

Contents

Artists

Elsa Benoit
Jake Arditti
Ambroisine Bre
Iestyn Davies
Alex Rosen
Stuart Jackson
Cappella Mediterranea

Conductor

Leonardo Garcia Alarcon

Works

Monteverdi, Claudio

L'incoronazione di Poppea (The Coronation of Poppea)

Artists

Elsa Benoit
Jake Arditti
Ambroisine Bre
Iestyn Davies
Alex Rosen
Stuart Jackson
Cappella Mediterranea

Conductor

Leonardo Garcia Alarcon

About

How to take the place of the empress of Rome? Poppaea, a courtesan and mistress of Emperor Nero, removes every obstacle that stands between her and the throne: she leaves her lover, Otho, the philosopher Seneca commits suicide, Empress Octavia is banished, and finally she achieves her goal, marrying Nero. Through Monteverdi's music, this triumph of immorality is elevated into a hymn to the power of desire. Monteverdi's last opera is also the first masterpiece of the genre, extraordinarily and enduringly modern. Here, it is filmed at the Opéra Royal de Versailles, with a young and committed cast, guided through a mafia-baroque world by director Ted Huffman and the sensational Leonardo Garcia Alarcon!

Cast:
- Poppea: Elsa Benoit
- Nerone: Jake Arditti
- Ottavia: Ambroisine Bré
- Ottone: Iestyn Davies
- Seneca: Alex Rosen
- Arnalta: Stuart Jackson

Reviews

Director Ted Huffman talks of the work’s ‘resolutely playful atmosphere without fatalism’, which seems a fair description of what he has achieved here. Played out on a plain, open stage with a few tables and chairs for a set, it profits from vividly realistic acting by its smartly modern-dressed performers; realism and depth, after all, are what has been handed to them with timeless genius by Busenello’s libretto and Monteverdi’s music, and it is received gratefully. ... The action never flags, one’s attention never wanders. ... I found this a Poppea worthy of its creators’ eternally modern genius.  Lindsay Kemp
Gramophone February 2024
Filmed at Versailles, Monteverdi’s last operatic masterpiece is here performed with real drama, insight and musical excellence  (Editor’s Choice)
Gramophone February 2024

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