Ivor Bolton: Monteverdi The Coronation of Poppaea, Anna Caterina Antonacci in the title role

Anna Caterina Antonacci

Claudio MONTEVERDI, L'incoronazione di Poppea (1993)



L'incoronazione di Poppea (SV 308, The Coronation of Poppaea) is an Italian opera by Claudio Monteverdi in a prologue and three acts, with a libretto by Giovanni Francesco Busenello, which was first performed at the Teatro Santi Giovanni e Paolo in Venice in the 1643 carnival season. One of the first operas to use historical events and people, it describes how Poppaea, mistress of the Roman emperor Nero, is able to achieve her ambition and be crowned empress.

Teatro Comunale di Bologna, 1993
Conductor: Ivor Bolton
Director: Graham Vick

Cast: Anna Caterina Antonacci (Poppea), Patricia Schumann (Nerone), Jennifer Larmore (Ottavia), Bernadette Manca di Nissa (Ottone), Carlo Colombara (Seneca), Adelina Scarabelli (Drusilla), Stefano Rinaldi Miliani (Mercurio), Max-René Cosotti, Francesco Piccoli

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Painting of the Roman courtesan Sabina Poppea who was briefly married to the emperor Nero (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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