L’Incoronazzione di
Poppea, or immoral empathy with crime.
Lust’s struggle with virtue could be the definition of this opera,
which is as complex as it is beautiful and old, written for that
vice-ridden and excommunicated Venice. It shows us a new Rome for a
castrated Nero, bloody and irrational, at the feet of a Poppea as
egotistic as she is seductive and diabolical, to whom reasons of
state and the death of others do not inconvenience at all.
Scandal is the greatness of this work, which with its beauties
shines a light on the infamous and illuminates the staging of the
crimes committed. Can beauty be perverse? Can you love what in
theory you hate?
L’incoronazione di Poppea
EXCLUSIVE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE UP TO 28
May 9th 2023 · 7.00pm
Teatre Martín i Soler
L’incoronazione di Poppea
Claudio Monteverdi
Dramma musicale in one prologue and three actsLibretto by Giovanni Francesco Busenello
Creative Team
Conductor
Leonardo García Alarcón
Stage Director
Ted Huffman
Original Set Designer
Johannes Schütz
Adaptation of Sets
Anna Wörl
Costume Designer
Astrid Klein
Lighting Designer
Bertrand Couderc
Cast
Poppea
Jacquelyn Stucker
Nerone
Nicolò Balducci
Ottavia/ Virtù
Mariana Sofía++
Ottone
Alberto Miguélez Rouco
Seneca
Alex Rosen
Arnalta/ Nutrice/ Famigliare I/ Damigella
Joel Williams+
Fortuna/ Drusilla
Rosa Dávila++
Amore/ Valletto
Pilar Garrido++
Lucano/ Soldato I / Famigliare II
Jorge Franco+
Liberto/ Soldato II
Maximiliano Spósito++
Littore/ Famigliare III
Carlos Reynoso++
Cappella Mediterranea
+Alumni – Centre de
Perfeccionament
++Centre de
Perfeccionament
A Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía new production, in co-production with Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and Opéra de Rennes
