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Order number: B 108 020

Monteverdi | L'incoronazione di Poppea

Bayerische Staatsoper - Ivor Bolton

Live recording from the Munich Prinzregententheater, 1997

3-CD-box in a slipcase


  • Poppea: Anna Caterina Antonacci
  • Nerone: David Daniels
  • Seneca: Kurt Moll
  • Bayerisches Staatsorchester
  • Ivor Bolton


  • Claudio Monteverdi | L'incoronazione di Poppea

  • Opera in three acts (Opera sung in Italian)


    • A woman on her way to the top!

    Determined to be Empress of Rome, crowned by Nero! And she'll use every trick in the book to get her way: intrigue, cross-dressing, ambition, greed and lust – a society on the skids. Career-woman Poppea – world première 1642 – as modern as today's newscast!

    One of the greatest, most beautiful – and first operas in the genre.
    Listen to it! Let it astonish you! Fall in love with it!

    Press review

    www.classicstoday.com

    Bolton's pacing is ideal and his band cannot be praised highly enough. Fabulous!

    Robert Levine

    Opera News

    This recording of a live 1997 Munich performance shimmers with the musical and erotic excitement the work demands but seldom receives… Daniels’ voice can float sweetly in its middle and expand thrillingly at its very top – sometimes doing both on the same breath…