Monteverdi - L'incoronazione di Poppea / McNair, von Otter, Hanchard, Chance; Gardiner
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Edition: Music CDCD Release Date: 1996-06-11
Music Label: Archiv Produktion
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- L'incoronazione di Poppea, opera in 3 acts, SV 308: Sinfonia and Prologue
- L'incoronazione di Poppea, opera in 3 acts, SV 308: Act 1, scene 1: "E pur'io torno qui, qual linea al centro"
- L'incoronazione di Poppea, opera in 3 acts, SV 308: Act 1, scene 2: "Chi parla? chi parla?"
- L'incoronazione di Poppea, opera in 3 acts, SV 308: Act 1, scene 3: "Signor, deh, non partire!"
- L'incoronazione di Poppea, opera in 3 acts, SV 308: Act 1, scene 4: "Speranza, tu mi vai"
- L'incoronazione di Poppea, opera in 3 acts, SV 308: Act 1, scene 5: "Disprezzata regina"
- L'incoronazione di Poppea, opera in 3 acts, SV 308: Act 1, scene 5: "Ottavia, Ottavia!"
- L'incoronazione di Poppea, opera in 3 acts, SV 308: Act 1, scene 6: "Ecco la sconsolata"
- L'incoronazione di Poppea, opera in 3 acts, SV 308: Act 1, scene 6: "Madama, con tua pace"
- L'incoronazione di Poppea, opera in 3 acts, SV 308: Act 1, scene 7: "Le porpore regali, e imperatrici"
- L'incoronazione di Poppea, opera in 3 acts, SV 308: Act 1, scene 8: "Seneca, io miro iin cielo infausti rai"
- L'incoronazione di Poppea, opera in 3 acts, SV 308: Act 1, scene 9: "Son risoluto insomma"
- L'incoronazione di Poppea, opera in 3 acts, SV 308: Act 1, scene 10: "Come dolci, Signor, come soavi"
- L'incoronazione di Poppea, opera in 3 acts, SV 308: Act 1, scene 11: "Ad altri tocca in sorte"
- L'incoronazione di Poppea, opera in 3 acts, SV 308: Act 1, scene 12: "Infelice garzone!" - "Otton, torna in te stresso"
- L'incoronazione di Poppea, opera in 3 acts, SV 308: Act 1, scene 13: "Pur sempre di Poppea"
- L'incoronazione di Poppea, opera in 3 acts, SV 308: Act 2, scene 1: "Solitudine amata"
- L'incoronazione di Poppea, opera in 3 acts, SV 308: Act 2, scene 2: "Il comando tiranno"
- L'incoronazione di Poppea, opera in 3 acts, SV 308: Act 2, scene 3: "Amici, ? giunta l'ora" - "Non morir, Seneca, no!" - "Supprimete
- L'incoronazione di Poppea, opera in 3 acts, SV 308: Act 2, scene 4: "Sento un certo non so che"
- L'incoronazione di Poppea, opera in 3 acts, SV 308: Act 2, scene 4: "Dunque amor cos? comincia?"
- L'incoronazione di Poppea, opera in 3 acts, SV 308: Act 2, scene 5: "Or che Seneca ? morto"
- L'incoronazione di Poppea, opera in 3 acts, SV 308: Act 2, scene 5: "Son rubini amorosi"
- L'incoronazione di Poppea, opera in 3 acts, SV 308: Act 2, scene 8: "Tu che dagli avi miei"
- L'incoronazione di Poppea, opera in 3 acts, SV 308: Act 2, scene 9: "Felice cor mio" - "Nuttrice, quanto pagheresti" - "Il giorno fem
- L'incoronazione di Poppea, opera in 3 acts, SV 308: Act 2, scene 10: "Io non so dov'io vada"
- L'incoronazione di Poppea, opera in 3 acts, SV 308: Act 2, scene 11: "Or che Seneca ? morto"
- L'incoronazione di Poppea, opera in 3 acts, SV 308: Act 2, scene 11: "Adagiati, Poppea - Oblivion soave"
- L'incoronazione di Poppea, opera in 3 acts, SV 308: Act 2, scene 13: "Eccomi trasformato"
- L'incoronazione di Poppea, opera in 3 acts, SV 308: Act 2, scene 14: "Forsennato, scellerato"
- L'incoronazione di Poppea, opera in 3 acts, SV 308: Act 3, scene 1: "O felice Drusilla, o che sper'io?"
- L'incoronazione di Poppea, opera in 3 acts, SV 308: Act 3, scene 2: "Ecco la scellerata"
- L'incoronazione di Poppea, opera in 3 acts, SV 308: Act 3, scene 3: "Signor, ecco la rea"
- L'incoronazione di Poppea, opera in 3 acts, SV 308: Act 3, scene 4: "No, no, questa sentenza"
- L'incoronazione di Poppea, opera in 3 acts, SV 308: Act 3, scene 5: "Signor, oggi rinasco ai primi fiori" - "Non pi? s'interporr? noi
- L'incoronazione di Poppea, opera in 3 acts, SV 308: Act 3, scene 6: "Oggi sar? Poppea"
- L'incoronazione di Poppea, opera in 3 acts, SV 308: Act 3, scene 7: "A Dio, Roma! a Dio, patria! amici, a Dio!"
- L'incoronazione di Poppea, opera in 3 acts, SV 308: Act 3, final scene: "Ascendi, o mia diletta" - "A te, sovrana augusta"
- L'incoronazione di Poppea, opera in 3 acts, SV 308: Act 3, final scene: "Scendiam, scendiam"
- L'incoronazione di Poppea, opera in 3 acts, SV 308: Act 3, final scene: "Pur ti miro"
Music reviews of Monteverdi - L'incoronazione di Poppea / McNair, von Otter, Hanchard, Chance; Gardiner
Music Review: a voice teacher and early music fan
Rating: 5 Stars
MONTEVERDI AT SEVENTY FOUR YEARS OF AGE BRINGS FORTH AN OPERA FULL OF YOUTH AND VITALITY!
Even after 3 centuries,the music of Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)glows with the passionate genius of a musical prophet. He was far ahead of his day in his conception of music as a dramatic, expressive art, and in the realization of that conception. He spurned the dry recitativos common to the opera of the day and instead gave the singers lovely melodies to sing. Short song-like passages were also included in the orchestral score. This opera demontrates well these traits of Monteverdi. Example: the lovely melody that recurs in Drusilla's song that I call her "happy" tune because she sings it first after Ottone shows her that he desires her instead of Poppea; unfortunately not true, but for the moment she believes it. Their are several tuneful melodies that become associated with the characters. The youth and vitality that shines forth through this opera are remarkable, emanating as they do from a 74 year old churchman.
The libretto for 'Poppea' was written by the promenent Venetian poet and impresario, Gian Francesco Busenello(1598-1659). It remains his most significant achievement. The choice of a historical subject rather than a pastoral-mythological one, reflects the tastes of the new, mainly mercantile, audience for opera in the 1640's. Busenello does retain a traditional framework typical of earliest operas: for example, the Prologue establishes the intention of the work to prove Cupid(Marinella Pennicchi) superior to Fortune(Anne Sofie von Otter) and Virute(Catherine Bott). But the actions presents the characters as real (even unsavoury)human beings in realistic siturations.
In brief, the plot is as follows: Ortho(Michael Chance),desperate on seeing himself deprived of Poppea(Sylvia McNair) gives way to exclamations of despair. Octavia (Anne Sofie von Otter), Nero's wife, orders Ortho to kill Poppea. He promises to do so, but lacking the courage to take the life of his adored Poppea, he assumes the dress of Druscilla(Catherine Bott), who is in love with him. Thus disguised, he enters Poppea's garden. Cupid intervenes and prevents the murder. Nero(Dana Hanchard) repudiates Octavia, in spite of Seneca's(Francesco d'Artegna) advice, and takes Poppea as his wife. Seneca dies and Octavia and Ortho are banished from Rome. Drusilla, out of love for him, accompanies him.
This production under the direction of John Eliot Gardiner bears his stamp of excellence thruout the entire performance. The singers are outstanding both in their singing and their portrayal of their respective characters. Sylvia McNair is a gorgeous sensuous Poppea.I especially liked Michael Chance's "Ottone" the rejected suitor of Poppea ,and another countertenor Roberto Balconi was very good in his role as Nutrice (Octavia's nurse); Octavia was the Empress who is about to be set aside by Nerone in favor of Poppea.
This is another masterpiece by Gardiner! And Monteverdi's final opera is truly GREAT!
Description of Monteverdi - L'incoronazione di Poppea / McNair, von Otter, Hanchard, Chance; Gardiner
Monteverdi's final opera really is a masterpiece, but its libretto requires close attention--this is not an opera for casual listeners. There is no ideal recording of Poppea currently available--Gardiner's version, while flawed, has many admirable qualities. Sylvia McNair is a gorgeous, sensuous Poppea; Dana Hanchard is the finest Nero on record--her soprano expresses the role's capricious willfulness without having to shout the top notes; Catherine Bott is a particularly fine Drusilla. Much of the rest of the cast sounds uncomfortable with Monteverdi and sings far too operatically--the most unfortunate performance in this respect is from the great Anne Sofie Von Otter, whose stentorian Ottavia overwhelms Monteverdi's lightly scored music. Still, this recording's many fine points make it worthwhile listening. --Matthew WestphalGeneral CDs
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