(Photo: Lorenzo Gorini) Claudio Monteverdi’s “L’incoronazione di Poppea” (first performed in 1643) was the composer’s last opera to have survived into the modern day. His works’ left a lasting impression on the Baroque period that continues to resonate today. Monteverdi’s music in “L’incoronazione di Poppea” is a palette of emotional expression, evolving and expanding into worlds of heightened complexity. Monteverdi {…}
The Opera de Lyon is set to present a production of Monteverdi’s “L’incoronazione di Poppea.” The opera will be conducted by Simon-Pierre Bestion and directed by Tatjana Gürbaca. Giulia Scopelliti will sign the title role, a singer from the 2022-2024 promotion of the Lyon Opéra Studio, alongside Iurii Iushkevich in the role of Nero. The other vocal parts are sung {…}
The Staatstheater Darmstadt is set to present “L’incoronazione di Poppea” this April. The Monteverdi Opera will open on April 14, 2026 and runs through May 23 for a total of four performances. The opera will be directed by Karsten Wiegand, whose opera credits throughout Germany include productions of “Orfeo ed Euridice,” “Maria Stuarda,” “Faust,” “Aida,” “Hyperion,” and “Rigoletto,” among others. {…}
Purchase College Opera is set to present Monteverdi’s “L’Incoronazione di Poppea” this April. There will be two casts. As Poppea, audiences will see either Zoe Brooks or Sophia Orrico. Their Nerones include Brigid Mack and James Hernandez, while the alternating Ottone interpreters include Theodore Perringtonn and Jonathan Mildner. Beyoncé Zabrano and Brigid Mack will alternate as Ottavia while Brandon Roque {…}
This week, the Grange Festival opens its 2024 summer season with Monteverdi’s “L’Incoronazione di Poppea.” The production will feature several established singers as well as rising stars. Among them is Christopher Lowrey, who will perform the role of Ottone in his Grange Festival debut. Over the years the countertenor has performed with several important companies including the Metropolitan Opera, Royal {…}
Italian soprano Roberta Mameli recently finished a run of performances in the title role of Monteverdi’s “L’incoronazione di Poppea,” a part which lies close to her heart. OperaWire met up with her for a short chat to find out more about the person behind the voice. OperaWire: What was the first opera you saw? Roberta Mameli: I was seven or {…}
(Photo: Studio B12 di Gianpaolo Guarneri) The duet “Pur ti miro, pur ti godo,” which brought Teatro Aligheri’s presentation of “L’Incoronazione di Poppea” to its conclusion, was rightly met with enthusiastic applause from the audience. The sensitivity, emotional depth and detail that countertenor Federico Fiorio and soprano Roberta Mameli were able to bring to their singing was breathtaking. Their voices {…}
(Photo: Laurent Guizard) Soprano Roberta Mameli has a voice that immediately makes an audience sit up and take notice. The fact that she is not even more well-known than she is currently, is no doubt down to the fact that she tends to specialize in baroque and, to a lesser extent, Mozart, with only occasional forays into other repertoire. Hers {…}
The Festival International Opéra Baroque & Romantique in Beaune has announced its 2023 season. First up is “Hail, Bright Cecilia,” which features the Gabrieli Consort and Players under Paul McCreesh. Singers include Zoe Brookshaw, Mhairi Lawson, Lauren Lodge-Campbell, Tim Mead, Jeremy Budd, Matthew Long, Bob Davies, and Ashley Riches. Performance Dates: July 7, 2023 Next up is the oratorio “Theodora” {…}
West Edge Opera has announced its 2023 Summer Opera Festival. NJ Agwuna, who led a production of “The Magic Flute” at the Glimmerglass Festival, will direct “The Coronation of Poppea.” Adam Pearl will conduct the opera and a cast starring Shawnette Sulker and Daniel Moody as the lovers Poppea and Nerone. Other cast members include Sara Couden, Michael Skarke, and {…}
(Photo: Ruth Walz) It never ceases to surprise how Monteverdi’s operas prove themselves time and again to be not just supreme examples of how the art form succeeds as a dramatic medium, able to communicate directly with present day audiences, with characters who resonate so clearly with the modern mind, even over a distance of 400 years, but also the {…}