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L'incoronazione di Poppea
Opera in three acts: libretto by GIOVANNI FRANCESCO BUSANELLO Music by Monteverdi
In a performing edition by ROGER NORRINGTON from a new collation of the manuscript by ALAN CURTIS sung in Italian) direct from the Goldsmiths' Hall
Rome, AD 64. Poppea replaces Nero's empress and assumes the throne.
JONATHAN HINDEN ,
NICHOLAS KRAEMER harpsichord continuo) ROBERT SPENCER , NIGELNORTH (lutes and cittarones)
JENNIFER WARD CLARKE (cello) MARILYN SANSOM ( cello) BARRY GUY (double-bass) KENT OPERA ORCHESTRA conducted by ROGER NORRINGTON Act 1
8.55* The Vision of Monteverdi DENIS GOACUER reads Franz Werfel 's imaginative evocation of an incident in Monteverdi's old age.
9.15* Poppea: Act 2
10.10* Interval Heading
10.20* Poppea: Act 3

Contributors

Unknown:
Giovanni Francesco Busanello
Unknown:
Roger Norrington
Script By:
Alan Curtis
Unknown:
Jonathan Hinden
Harpsichord:
Nicholas Kraemer
Unknown:
Robert Spencer
Cello:
Jennifer Ward Clarke
Cello:
Marilyn Sansom
Conducted By:
Roger Norrington
Unknown:
Monteverdi Denis Goacuer
Unknown:
Franz Werfel
Source: Radio Times

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