Poppea: Komische Oper Berlin
About the Event
The Komische Oper Berlin commissioned composer Elena Kats‐Chernin to create a unique new orchestration for Monteverdi's opera, 'The Coronation of Poppea'. The result is 'Poppea', a work that integrates such popular musical influences as jazz, klezmer, tango, and ragtime.
In Monteverdi’s political thriller, full of eroticism, murder, and intrigue, it is the very amour fou of the two main protagonists that threatens to destabilise the balance of political power. Monteverdi finds a broad variety of tone colors for the different characters in this power game, yet his music is never judgemental or condemnatory. Thus the wonderfully uplifting duet between Nero and Poppea at the end of the opera is without reservation one of the most heartfelt love duets in the entire history of opera.
In German language, with German, English, French, and Turkish subtitles.
Cast / Production
Conductor, Matthew Toogood
Director, Barrie Kosky
Stage design and Costumes, Kathrin Lea Tag
Costumes, Katharina Tasch
Choreography, Otto Pichler
Dramaturgy, Ulrich Lenz
Choir, André Kellinghaus
Light, Alexander Koppelmann
Poppea, Alma Sadé
Nero, Dominik Köninger
Octavia, Karolina Gumos
Otho, Maria Fiselier
Drusilla, Julia Giebel
Seneca, Jens Larsen
Valletto, Tansel Akzeybek
Damigella / Destiny, Talya Lieberman
Arnalta, Thomas Michael Allen
Amme / Merkury, Tom Erik Lie
Amor, Peter Renz
Virtue, Katarzyna Włodarczyk
Liberto, Yuri Rostotsky
