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Album Summary
Performers
Franz-Josef Selig (Bass)- Miah Persson (Soprano)
- Ruth Rosique (Soprano)
- Jordi Domenech (Mezzo Soprano)
- Sarah Connolly (Soprano)
- Maité Beaumont (Soprano)
Notes & Reviews:
Love conquers all - ruthlessly and irresistibly - as Emperor Nero and his mistress Poppea remove the obstacles to their union. At Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu David Alden's visually sumptuous production, with its suggestions of a giant game of chess, puts the opera's potent blend of sex and politics in a context that sets ancient against modern - just as the action juxtaposes scurrilous comedy and stark drama. Monteverdi's magnificent score, meanwhile, accommodates intrigue, wit, nobility, tragedy and sensuality, and, led by the intense Sarah Connolly and the delectable Miah Persson, the cast brings both drama and music startlingly to life.
BBC Music Magazine
This Barcelona interpretation by [Alden] is almost Brechtian in the spare objectivity of its stage set, and Expressionist in its use of the shadowy, zombie-like figure of Time that shuffles across the back of the stage...Persson is a superb Poppea who can really act with her voice but whose body seems constrained by the direction...The orchestral accompaniments are nicely varied.
Run Time: 183 min.
Region: All
Picture Format: NTSC, 16:9, Color
Sound Format(s): LPCM 2.0, DTS HD Master Audio 5.1
Subtitles: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Catalan
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Works Details
Monteverdi, Claudio : L'incoronazione di Poppea, opera in 3 acts, SV 308 - Performers: Franz-Josef Selig (Bass); Miah Persson (Soprano); Ruth Rosique (Soprano); Jordi Domenech (Mezzo Soprano); Sarah Connolly (Soprano); Maité Beaumont (Soprano)
- Conductor: Harry Bicket
- Ensemble: Baroque Orchestra of the Gran Teatre del Liceu
- Period Time: Baroque
- Form: Opera/Operetta
- Written: 1642
