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Monteverdi: L'Incoronazione di Poppea.
[] Schuman, Kuhlmann, Brooks; R. Croft, Peeters, Rayam, Visse; Concerto Koln, Jacobs. 1993. Arthaus Musik DVD 100109, 150 mins. (dist. Naxos)
Viewers suffering from Baroque Opera Gender Confusion Syndrome will welcome the video vignettes of each character that roll along with the cast list during the opening sinfonia of Monteverdi's opera from the Schwetzingen Festival.
Conductor Rene Jacobs's habit with seventeenth-century music is to add appropriate orchestral introductions and scene-changing music, but he also lays a heavy hand on the texture during the vocal bits, with plenty of instrumental backup, layering and counterpoint, sometimes hampering the singers and detracting from the declamation. On the plus side, his thorough understanding of seventeenth-century librettos ensures that the comic and serious scenes are properly balanced. The tragic characters -- the rejected empress Ottavia (Kathleen Kuhlmann in splendid voice, and profoundly affecting in her farewell to Rome) and the Stoic philosopher Seneca (the basso non profondo Harry Peeters) -- contrast symmetrically with the strongly cast drag sidekicks Nutrice (the irrepressible countertenor Dominique Visse, at once touching and ...
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