L'incoronazione di poppea - René Jacobs - Trailer

Directed by René Jacobs 1993
Patricia Schuman...Poppea
Richard Croft......Nerone
Jeffrey Gall ......Ottone

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[cuicuimusic]

Ah wait a second. I think I meant Jeffrey Gall. The first singer.

[bejun]

yes the first es J.Gall as Ottone (the man in black). Richard Croft is Neron (the man in red)

[alexandrevlad37]

Fantastic Richard Croft !

[corlyssd]

I agree with you. A mezzo or soprano is better because of the sonorities. A tenor simply doesn't get at the sound Monteverdi heard when he scored the opera. I thought this conundrum about whether to cast for what the composer scored or what producers think audiences would prefer had been resolved in the 1980s by Janet Baker's successful assumption of Cesare at the ENO. I didn't realize producers still struggled with it. Too bad. I wouldn't bother with a tenor Nerone under any circumstances.

[egomorfo]

for god´s sake the nerone´s visual and his voice do not match. due to the impossibility to cast a women in public presentations, monteverdi recurred to countertenor to manage that inconvenience, but today what keeps us from presenting a tenor instead?

[jfbecks17]

True, with Nero as a Mezzo this duet sounds better, but overall I think I like Nero as a tenor more. More manly.

[jfbecks17]

Ottone has a weird voice... too mixed, he should be a countertenor, not a haute-tenor.

[BethDiane]

Actually, normally I'd agree with you, but in this case I'll make an exception. The seconds may become sevenths, but the singers actually nail them a lot better than usual; this is actually one of my favorite renditions of the duets!

[luisortmul]

they sing Pur ti miro very well, but sadly because R.C. is a tenor all the clashes in seconds are lost!!!

Such a pity!

:-(

[lmspr]

I just realized that somebody has already uploaded the full duet. If you want to see it, just type "Final Act Duet Poppea Nerone".

[lmspr]

Thanks to Bejun for this clip. The duet ("Pur ti miro") that starts at minute 4:44 has got be one of the most beautiful duets ever written. I wish Richard Croft and Patricia Schumann had recorded this for CD, not just DVD. The clip here shows just a portion of the duet. Can anyone who has the DVD please post the whole duet?

[corlyssd]

I thought these wars were over and won, especially once the new generation of countertenors brought producers the best of all possible worlds. And Alessandrini no less! Depressing indeed. As JFK once noted, "there's always somebody who doesn't get the memo."