The Coronation of Poppea (l'incoronazione di Poppea)
From: Tuesday, 5th April 2011
To: Thursday, 19 May 2011
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Synopsis
Sex, lies and murder collide in Monteverdi s sensual masterpiece of baroque opera, set against the fiery backdrop of the corrupt and debauched city of Rome. The battle between desire and virtue is portrayed in some of the most beautiful music ever written for the human voice. As her husband approaches, Poppea lies in an adulterous bed with the Emperor Nero. Her relentless ambition, feeding on Nero s power and wealth, sets in motion a series of events that will cast all around her into a sea of immorality and violence.
Our Review:
Keith McDonnell - 24 April 2011
Pub opera is all the rage. Or so we’re told. OperUpClose’s version of Puccini’s La Bohème won this website’s award for Best Off-West End production, and although I didn’t see it, by and large reports were favourable. It also won the Olivier Award for Best New Opera Production – was this Bohème performed in a pub really better than Simon McBurney’s staging of A Dog’s Heart for ENO? Can you compare the two? Well, not really, and whilst La Bohème was a critical success, other projects such as the ‘Ladyboy’ Madama Butterfly were critically panned, so what is pub opera actually offering? Bold, innovative stagings that attract a handful of youthful operatic virgins or well-below par performances of classic works that traduce the originals?
The answer is probably a mixture of the two – it’s all a bit hiss and miss but I’m happy to report that by and lar...
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Job - 2 June 2011:
Just caught up with this show. It's pretty much the review I'd have written in your shoes, although I'd add that I also had problems with the inconsistent tone of the production and with the atrocious audience sightlines any time anyone splashed in Seneca's sunken bath (as happened repeatedly). Things like these, together with the silly instrumentation, added a patina of amateurishness to the whole thing. But Rebecca Caine was astonishing....
Cast
Rebecca Caine (Ottavia)
Tom Lowe (Arnalta)
Jassy Husk (Drusilla)
Jessica Walker (Nero)
David Sheppard (Ottone)
Zoe Bonner (Poppea)
Adam Kowalczyk (Liberto/Solder)
Marcin Gesla (Seneca)
Creative
Monteverdi (Author)
Opera Up Close (Company)
Mark Ravenhill (Adaptation)
Alex Silverman (Adaptation)
Mark Ravenhill (Director)
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