L'incoronazione di Poppea

Final Act. Duet with Poppea & Nerone.

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Music

Tags:

• opera
• monteverdi
• poppea
• final
• act
• classical

[Elfenohr]

is the singer of nero (richard croft) the same who sang mozart's mitridate in salzburg?

[trel1806]

Yes it was.

[piustwelfth]

Richard Croft has one of the most beautiful tenor voices I've ever heard.

[Viperplayer187]

For some reason I find the part that comes before Pur ti miro better than Pur ti miro.

[tervito]

@Viperplayer187 The fanfare is tremendous and well done here despite the lacklustre second set of voices and the awful trillo at "imperia-ha-ha-hal".

[belcantomania]

Tutto ciò è meraviglioso:la musica elegiaca cantata divinamente da due voci indovinate per il colore,la sensualità,la regia magnifica,tutto "rende" bene l'atmosfera del brano.

[BethDiane]

I usually prefer this with two equal voices, but for this tenor I'll make an exception.

[BethDiane]

I just figured out who she looks like: the young Betty Aberlin who used to appear on "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood." (I guess I'm dating myself.")

[jwbtenor]

That was just lovely.  Thank you for posting!!!

[kkallebb]

I agree. "Pur ti miro" is nice, but it's not nearly so musically interesting as most of the rest of the opera. Incidentally, "Pur ti miro" wasn't written by Monteverdi but by Francesco Sacrati. Of course, this whole scene, including the senatorial chorus, wasn't written by M. either, but by Sacrati. Actually, nothing after Arnalta's final piece ("oggi sara Poppea....") was written by M.

[Elfenohr]

i just noticed that they switched their singing parts. nero is singing poppea's part and the other way around ... oO

well, textwise i guess it doesn't really make a difference

[Elfenohr]

1993 at the schwetzinger festspiele in germany