Monteverdi: Two Classic Operas

L'Orfeo & L'incoronazione di Poppea

Release Date: 27th Oct 2017
Catalogue No: OA1256BD
Label: Opus Arte

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Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea

Recorded live at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, February 2009
Miah Persson (Poppea), Sarah Connolly (Nerone), Jordi Domènech (Ottone), Franz-Josef Selig (Seneca), Maite Beaumont (Ottavia), Dominique Visse (Nutrice/Arnalta), Ruth Rosique (Drusilla), Guy de Mey (Lucano), William Berger (Valletto), Marisa Martins (La Fortuna/Pallas Athene/Venus), Judith van Wanroij (Damigella/La Virtu)
Baroque Orchestra of the Gran Teatre del Liceu
Harry Bicket (conductor) & David Alden (stage director)

Monteverdi: L'Orfeo

Recorded live at La Teatro alla Scala 21st & 23rd December 2009
Georg Nigl (Orfeo), Roberta Invernizzi (Euridice), Sara Mingardo (Messaggera), Sara Mingardo (Speranza), Luigi De Donato (Caronte), Raffaella Milanesi (Proserpina), Giovanni Battista Parodi (Plutone), Roberta Invernezzi (Eco), Furio Zanasi (Apollo) & Nicola Strada (Solo Dancer)
Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala & Concerto Italiano (Basso continuo)
Rinaldo Alessandrini (conductor) & Robert Wilson (director)

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Monteverdi’s seminal first opera L’Orfeo, tells the dramatic story from Ovid’s Metamorphoses of the descent of Orfeo (Georg Nigl) into the underworld to recover his beloved wife Euridice (Roberta Invernizzi), seen here in a production for La Scala, based on a painting by Titian and directed by Robert Wilson. David Alden’s visually sumptuous production of L’incoronazione di Poppea, with its suggestions of a giant game of chess, puts the opera’s potent blend of sex and politics in a context that sets ancient against modern – just as the action juxtaposes scurrilous comedy and stark drama.

Subtitles: EN/FR/DE/ES/IT/CATALAN

Running times: 299 minutes

Sound format: 2.0LPCM + 5.1 DTS

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Miah Persson (Poppea), Sarah Connolly (Nerone), Jordi Domènech (Ottone), Franz-Josef Selig (Seneca), Maite Beaumont (Ottavia), Dominique Visse (Nutrice/Arnalta), Ruth Rosique (Drusilla), Guy de Mey (Lucano), William Berger (Valletto), Marisa Martins (La Fortuna/Pallas Athene/Venus), Judith van Wanroij (Damigella/La Virtu), Georg Nigl (Orfeo), Roberta Invernizzi (Euridice), Sara Mingardo (Messaggera), Sara Mingardo (Speranza), Luigi De Donato (Caronte), Raffaella Milanesi (Proserpina), Giovanni Battista Parodi (Plutone), Roberta Invernezzi (Eco), Furio Zanasi (Apollo) & Nicola Strada (Solo Dancer)

Baroque Orchestra of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala & Concerto Italiano (Basso continuo), Harry Bicket (conductor) & David Alden (stage director), Rinaldo Alessandrini (conductor) & Robert Wilson (director)

Monteverdi: Two Classic Operas

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