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Claudio Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea

Patricia Schuman | Marianne Rotholm | Kathleen Kuhlmann | Jeffrey Gall | Harry Peters | Curtis Rayam | Richard Croft
Michael Hampe, stage director
Concerto Köln
René Jacobs

Monteverdi is generally regarded as the father of European opera. His "Poppea" is a blood and thunder melodrama, set in Nero's Rome and loaded with passion, jealousy, murder and savage ambition.

Facts

Prog. No.
0240
Music genre
Opera
Length
151 mins
Director
José Montes-Baquer
Producers
SDR/ WDR/ ARTE © SDR/ Maran
Production year
1993
Format
SD