L'Incoronazione di Poppea (Glyndebourne Festival Opera/Leppard) with Jean-Pierre Ponnelle: DVD Cover
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L'Incoronazione di Poppea (Glyndebourne Festival Opera/Leppard)
a.k.a. The Coronation of Poppea Director: Jean-Pierre Ponnelle

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  • DVD Release Date: 02/10/2004
  • Original Release: 1984
  • Rating: Not Rated
  • Sales Rank: 43,936

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Side #1 --
1. Prologue: Fortune, Virtue, Love [10:39]
2. Ottone, Soliders, Poppea, Nero [18:02]
3. Poppea, Arnalta [5:59]
4. Octavia, Drusilla, Seneca, Valetto, Pallade, Nero [21:33]
5. Poppea, Nero [9:05]
6. Ottone, Poppea, Drusilla [8:58]
7. Valetoo, Damigella [4:48]
8. Seneca, Liberto [:01]
9. Nero, Lucano [13:24]
10. Octavia, Ottone [4:48]
11. Drusilla, Ottone [4:20]
12. Poppea, Arnalta, Love, Ottone [4:55]
13. Drusilla, Arnalta, Littore, Nero, Ottone, Poppea [13:09]
14. Octavia [12:50]
15. Arnalta [4:12]
16. Poppea, Nero [3:48]
17. Credits [9:13]

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Claudio Monteverdi's swan song, the tragic opera L'Incoronazione di Poppea, weaves its tale of the doomed, tempestuous affair between the Satanically immoral Emperor Nero and the bawdy, Machiavellian Poppea. Acclaimed theatrical director Peter Hall mounted L'Incoronazione at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 1984 and filmed the live stage production; the program first aired on the BBC, but at-home audiences can watch it again and again in this new release, which captures the magic of the original production. Maria Ewing interprets the title role, with Dennis Bailey as Nero, Cynthia Clarey as Octavia, and Robert Lloyd as Seneca. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide All Movie Guide

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May 02, 2004: In addition to a large collection of (mostly) Baroque operas on CD, I have over 75 operas on DVD, in at least one version, as well Monteverdi's other two operas, which are also incredible. But L'Incoronazione di Poppea takes the cake, whether in terms of the beauty of the music, the effectiveness of the staging and costumes, the quality of the acting and singing of the principals, or even the dramatic and literary intensity of the story. The video recording is a little old, so the picture is slightly grainy, but the sound quality (though only in Dolby stereo) is incomparable, the production and conducting without peer. I am quite sure I will still feel the same after viewing it ten or fifteen times, though so far I have only watched it twice. This is a must-buy for any lover of Baroque music, and it is one of the operatic masterpieces of all time. It should be included in every course in the history of opera.