The Florentine Opera Company's March production of The Coronation of Poppea by Claudio Monteverdi will feature GRAMMY Award-winning tenor Karim Sulayman in the role of Emperor Nerone. At the 61st ...

When Raymond Leppard’s 1962 Glyndebourne version introduced L'Incoronazione di Poppea to the 20th-century opera audience, with a large modern orchestra and its subtle dissonances smoothed out, the ...

Monteverdi’s powerful, erotically charged opera of passion and duplicity, in which Nerone rejects his wife Ottavia for the alluring attractions of Poppea, first performed in Venice during Carnival ...

L’incoronazione di Poppea is a rather odd creation, given that it does not present the same tale of morality as lies at the heart of the vast majority of operas. With some exceptions such as Rigoletto ...

Julia Agrippina or Agrippina the Younger was born November 6th in the year 15 C.E. Among classists, she was considered the most powerful and ruthless women of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, and yet many ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Nero's ancient Rome and Jazz Age New York were similar. That is the message of “The Comet/Poppea,” an intriguing combination of Monteverdi’s 1643 opera “L’incoronazione di Poppea” and ...

Dante Ferretti, Francesca Lo Schiavo, Gabriella Pescucci, Luis Bacalov. Sono ben quattro premi Oscar a dare il loro contributo allo spettacolo “Divo Nerone - Opera Rock”, colossal sulla vita ...

The fall offering of Lyric Theatre at Illinois was the 1643 opera "The Coronation of Poppea," ("Poppea" in this production) by Claudio Monteverdi, the composer usually given credit as one of the great ...

Nero's Ancient Rome and Jazz Age New York Meet in `The Comet/Poppea' at Lincoln Center NEW YORK (AP) — Nero's ancient Rome and Jazz Age New York were similar. That is the message of “The Comet/Poppea, ...