L’Incoronazione di Poppea

N°132

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Poppaea, Nero’s mistress, wields manipulation and cruelty to attain power, orchestrating intrigues and deaths around her. Under Monteverdi’s music and Stéphane Fuget’s direction, her rise becomes a mesmerizing celebration of limitless desire and ambition.More details

CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI (1567-1643)
L’INCORONAZIONE DI POPPEA

Opera in a prologue and three acts, with a libretto by Giovanni Francesco Busenello based on the Annales of Tacitus, premiered in Venice in 1642–1643.

Francesca Aspromonte · Nicolò Balducci · Eva Zaïcik · Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian · Camille Poul · Alex Rosen

Les Épopées
Stéphane Fuget, conductor

Poppea, a courtesan with an insatiable thirst for power, weaves her destiny with formidable grace. Mistress of the Emperor Nero, she frees herself from all restraints, sweeping aside past loves, orchestrating the suicide of the philosopher Seneca and precipitaing the fall of the Empress Octavia. Her coronation and the covetedunion with Nero could be seen as nothing more than a manifesto of amorality. However, under Monteverdi’s majestic inspiration and Stéphane Fuget’s fervent direction, this ascension is transformed into an intoxicating ode to all-powerful desire, revealing the terrifying beauty of unrestrained ambition !

Recorded from December 12th to 17th 2023 in the Salle des Croisades at the Château de Versailles.

Booklet French/English - Duration : 225'20.

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