L'incoronazione Di Poppea - DVD

How to take the place of the empress of Rome? Poppaea, a courtesan and mistress of Emperor Nero, removes every obstacle that stands between her and the throne she leaves her lover, Otho, the philosopher Seneca commits suicide, Empress Octavia is banished, and finally she achieves her goal, marrying Nero. Through Monteverdi's music, this triumph of immorality is elevated into a hymn to the power of desire. Monteverdi's last opera is also the first masterpiece of the genre, extraordinarily and enduringly modern. Here, it is filmed at the Opéra Royal de Versailles, with a young and committed c ast, guided through a mafia-baroque world by director Ted Huffman and the sensational Leonardo García Alarcón!

Jessica Pratt, Simon Bailey, Christian Senn, Vincenzo Taormina, Aurora Tirotta, Leonardo Cortellazzi, and Asude Karayavuz star in this La Scala production of the Donizetti opera conducted by Marco Guidarini and directed by Antonio Albanese.

Monteverdi's Fourth Book of Madrigals explores differing emotional states of abandoned lovers through the most dramatic and amazingly modern music for vocal ensemble. This film follows the simultaneous break-up of 6 couples from shocking revelation.