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The Coronation of Poppea

Poppea (Ingela Bohlin, right) is hard for Nero (Charlotte Hellekant) to resist, in The Coronation of Poppea, from Drottningholm.

Drottningholm Court Theatre

November 14, 2009, 1:00 pm

Composer: Claudio Monteverdi
Conductor: Mark Tatlow

 

Cast: Ingelina Bohlin (Poppea); Charlotte Hellekand (Nerone); Matilda Paulsson (Ottavia); Christopher Ainslie (Ottone); Lars Arvidson (Consolo); Malin Christensson (Drusilla)

 

Monteverdi's Poppea proves that passion was plentiful in the opera house long before Verdi and Puccini hit the scene. The opera brings us a love so strong that it threatens to bring down an empire -- accompanied by one of the steamiest love duets ever composed.

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