• Editor's Choice The Coronation of Poppea

    Victorian Opera: The Coronation of Poppea

    Palais Theatre, St Kilda St Kilda, VIC, Australia
    Monteverdi’s opera, heard here in Elena Kats-Chernin’s jazz-influenced orchestral rearrangement, is one of the masterpieces of the early Baroque. Set in Nero’s Rome, it’s an amoral feast of treachery, sexual shenanigans and unbounded ambition in which Poppea sets out to win a place on the Imperial throne. Sam Strong directs a new production with baritone…
  • Editor's Choice The Coronation of Poppea

    Victorian Opera: The Coronation of Poppea

    Palais Theatre, St Kilda St Kilda, VIC, Australia
    Monteverdi’s opera, heard here in Elena Kats-Chernin’s jazz-influenced orchestral rearrangement, is one of the masterpieces of the early Baroque. Set in Nero’s Rome, it’s an amoral feast of treachery, sexual shenanigans and unbounded ambition in which Poppea sets out to win a place on the Imperial throne. Sam Strong directs a new production with baritone…
    Editor's Choice The Coronation of Poppea

    Victorian Opera: The Coronation of Poppea

    Palais Theatre, St Kilda St Kilda, VIC, Australia
    Monteverdi’s opera, heard here in Elena Kats-Chernin’s jazz-influenced orchestral rearrangement, is one of the masterpieces of the early Baroque. Set in Nero’s Rome, it’s an amoral feast of treachery, sexual shenanigans and unbounded ambition in which Poppea sets out to win a place on the Imperial throne. Sam Strong directs a new production with baritone…