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Barbican Hall
Silk Street
Barbican, City of London
London
EC2Y 8DS
England
Tickets
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Programme
Claudio Monteverdi – L'Incoronazione di Poppea, SV 308
Performers
Laurence Cummings – director / harpsichord
Anna Dennis – soprano
Ed Lyon – tenor
Katie Bray – mezzo-soprano
Christopher Lowrey – countertenor
Eric Owens – bass-baritone
Stuart Jackson – tenor
Maryam Wocial – soprano
Diana Montague – mezzo-soprano
Thomas Walker – tenor
Rory Carver – tenor
Richard Latham – baritone
Danni O'Neill – soprano
Robert Macdonald – bass
Programme Note
Monteverdi’s most sensuous – and scandalous – opera, performed in concert by Laurence Cummings, Academy of Ancient Music and a stellar cast.
Sex, death, and the most dangerous appetite of all – power. The misdeeds of the Emperor Nero and the rise of his mistress Poppea are supposed to be a cautionary tale. But Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea tells the story in music of such drama, such style and such pure, sensuous beauty that it’s hard not to be seduced.
Because after all, power merely corrupts. But love can corrupt absolutely, and no-one understood that better than Monteverdi – the Venetian genius who defined opera as we know it, and whose music still has an irresistible way of getting under your skin. Academy of Ancient Music knows this music like few other groups: feel the passion today, as Laurence Cummings joins a world-class cast that includes Ed Lyon as Nero and Anna Dennis as his deadly lover.
Sung in Italian with English titles.
