Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea (complete opera) BLU-RAY

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CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea (complete opera) BLU-RAY
Hana Blažiková, Kangmin Justin Kim, Carlo Vistoli, Gianluca Buratto, Lucile Richardot / Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardine

[ Opus Arte Blu-ray / Blu-ray ]

Release Date: Friday 22 April 2022

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Rated: G - Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Act 1993Suitable for General Audiences

Claudio Monteverdi developed the principles of opera with L'Orfeo in the first decade of the 17th-century. At the very end of his life he wrote L'incoronazione di Poppea. The opera marked a decisive move from allegorical and mythic elements towards a historical subject - the love affair between the Roman Emperor Nero and his mistress Poppea. His final masterpiece, where the beauty of the arias vanquished the decadence of the storyline, was first performed in the year of his death. For decades John Eliot Gardiner has been at the forefront of Monteverdi performance and scholarship, and for the 450th anniversary of Monteverdi's birth in 2017 he conducted all three of the composer's surviving full-length operas. This semi-staged production, recorded in Venice's historical Teatro La Fenice is part of that acclaimed cycle.

194 minutes

"A crowning glory, you might say, to Gardiner's half century association with Monteverdi" (TheTimes Five Stars)