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MONTEVERDI: L'Incoronazione di Poppea.(Review)
MONTEVERDI: L'Incoronazione di Poppea [] Laurens, Galli, Banditelli, Fernandez, Borges, Fedi, Lanza; Oliver, Schofrin, Garcia, Oro, Cecchetti, Jaroussky, Zanasi, Vargetto, Caccamo, Ferrari; Ensemble Elyma, Garrido. Text and translations. K617 110/3 (Harmonia Mundi, dist.)
For sheer amoral fun, can any opera top Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea? From its prologue positing the ascendancy of Eros and Fortune over Virtue ("obsolete, abhorred, unwanted") to Nero and Poppea's final duet, its luscious dissonances so suggestive of the bliss and yearning of carnal love, Poppea makes Carmen, Die Walkure, even Lulu seem in comparison like so much bourgeois hokum. To be sure, at least one school of thought maintains that the opera really was intended to exalt the constancy of Ottavia, Seneca and the other "respectable" characters, since Monteverdi's audience would have known quite well how history ultimately unfolded (with Nero allegedly kicking the pregnant Poppea to death). Still, given the heterodox leanings of librettist Busenello and his circle -- to say nothing of the seventy-five-year-old composer's miraculously vital and luxuriant score -- who can blame listeners for being taken in by Poppea's wicked delights?
Sensual joy is certainly the salient feature of this riveting new recording from K617, the latest installment in conductor Gabriel Garrido's acclaimed Monteverdi cycle. Though their efforts are undercut by the somewhat tubby recorded sound, the Ensemble Elyma under Garrido plays with ...
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