L'Incoronazione di Poppea - Schedule, Program & Tickets

Musical Direction Pablo Heras-Casado
Inszenierung, Bühne & Choreographie Jan Lauwers
Costume Design Lemm& Barkey
Lighting Design Ken Hioco
Dramaturge Elke Janssens

Nerone Kate Lindsey
Poppea Slávka Zámečniková
Ottone, früherer Gatte Poppeas Xavier Sabata
Ottavia, Neros Gemahlin Christina Bock
Seneca Willard White
Virtù / Drusilla Vera-Lotte Boecker
Arnalta, Poppeas Amme Thomas Ebenstein
Amore / Valletto Ileana Tonca

Amor vincit omnia – love conquers all: Amor wants to prove this and thus parades with the allegories of happiness and virtue that fight for supremacy. He has chosen the protagonist of his experimental arrangement to be the emperor Nero, who is married to Ottavia, with the intention of making his mistress, Poppea, empress of Rome that very same day. The three acts of the opera L'incoronazione di Poppea that follow have nothing whatsoever to do with a dispute between ancient deities who are removed from all earthly concerns. With music of supernatural beauty, great emotional intensity, but also full of comedy and bitter mockery, Claudio Monteverdi leads us directly into a web of power games, conspiracies, unscrupulousness, disappointments, love vows and murders. The philosopher Seneca, driven to suicide at the decadent court of Nero, becomes a symbol of the bankruptcy of an entire society. In the end it is not love that trumps all, but intrigue, ambition, seduction and seductiveness...
Subject to change.