Early Music Seattle: 'L'incoronazione di Poppea'
Free (Free ($20 suggested donation))
Claudio Monteverdi – L'incoronazione di Poppea ("The Coronation of Poppea")
Stephen Stubbs & Fred Haptman, co-music directors
Theodore Deacon, stage director
This opera was composed for Venice’s 1643 Carnival season and has been a standard of opera repertoire ever since. The Coronation of Poppea tells the story of the intrigue and deception that sets the stage for the fall of the Roman Empire. Early Music Seattle produced and filmed this opera in 2007 in the Intiman Playhouse. You’ll enjoy a newly enhanced and supertitled video performance of this compelling production, never before released to the public!
Recorded at Intiman Playhouse, Seattle, WA, February 16 & 17, 2007.
The broadcast will take place at 7pm Pacific.
No charge. Suggested donation: $20. Link to donate: https://earlymusicseattle.org/make-your-gift-today/