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Composer of the Week: Monteverdi

BBC Radio 3
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5/5. In the final year of Monteverdi's life, the opera that is now regarded as his masterpiece was produced in Venice: L'lncoronazione di Poppea. Donald Macleod introduces extracts from this highly original work of ruthless ambition, love, lust and struggle for power. L'lncoronazione di Poppea (excerpts)
English Baroque Soloists, director John Eliot Gardiner
Repeated at 8.45pm

Contributors

Introduces:
Donald MacLeod
Director:
John Eliot Gardiner
Poppea:
Sylvia McNair (soprano)
Nero:
Dana Hanchard (soprano)
Octavia/Venus:
Anne Sofie von Otter (soprano)
Seneca:
Francesco Ellero D'Arteqna (bass)
Luca:
Mark Tucker (tenor)
Cupid/Damigella:
Marinella Pennicchl (soprano)
Source: Radio Times

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