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Monteverdi: L'Incoronazione di Poppea

classical music, opera, theatre

Conductor:

György Vashegyi

Cast:

Poppea / Fortuna
Emőke Baráth
Nero
Viktória Vizin
Octavia / Virtue
Hagar Sharvit
Otho
Matthew Shaw
Arnalta
Jeffrey Thompson
Seneca
Miklós Sebestyén
Drusilla
Nóra Tatai
Amore
Ágnes Pintér (voice), Egyed Beáta (dance)
Pallas / Damigella
Eszter Zemlényi
Valletto
Anna Molnár
First Soldier
Péter Mészáros
Second Soldier, Libertius
László Kálmán
Mercury
Domonkos Blazsó
A Lictor
Ákos Borka
Choir of Lovers
Ágnes Pintér, Nóra Tatai, Eszter Zemlényi, Anna Molnár
Seneca's pupils
Péter Mészáros, Viktor Korbász, Ákos Borka
Consuls and tribunes
László Kálmán, Viktor Korbász, Péter Mészáros, Domonkos Blazsó, Ákos Borka

Featuring:

Orfeo Orchestra

Creator:

director
Zsófia Geréb

Creators:

assistant director
Anna Szélinger
sets, costumes, projection design
Virág Pázmány
choreographer
Attila Soós

The series of Baroque operas with the Purcell Choir and Orfeo Orchestra, led by conductor György Vashegyi, arrives at another important juncture. Monteverdi's last work for the stage, L'Incoronazione di Poppea is unusual in that its composer, aged 75 at the time of its writing in 1642, took the bold and innovative step of bringing true historical events to the stage for the first time in the history of opera - doing away with the customary reliance on classical mythology. The story of Sene...ca, Drusilla, the cheated Empress Octavia, Nero and his lover Poppea is risqué and immoral: the evil triumph, while the virtuous suffer. The combination of outstanding singers in the principal roles, music performed on period instruments and distinctive direction promises an experience to remember, and not only for lovers of musical theatre. Strikingly avant-garde in its time, Monteverdi's music remains extraordinarily expressive to this day, its varied and sensuous melodies and exhilerating harmonies serving to accentuate the emotions of the story. Typically of masterpieces of its kind, this almost 400-year-old work speaks to audiences of all eras, including our own.

The score is edited by Clifford Bartlett.


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Produced by Müpa Budapest
26 November 2015, Thursday 7 pm — 10:30 pm
one interval
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