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| Composers | Genres | Operas | Libretti | Arias | About | ||||
| L'incoronazione di Poppea | ||||
| Claudio Monteverdi 1567 - 1643 | ||||
| Libretto by Giovanni Francesco Busenello based on the writings of Tacitus, Suetonius and others | ||||
| First performance at Venice in 1642 | ||||
| Synopsis - Arias | ||||
| Italian libretto | ||||
| Article in Wikipedia | ||||
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| Synopsis - Top | ||||
| Monteverdi's last opera, composed for a Venetian audience, is often performed today. Its Venetian context helps to explain the complete absence of the moralizing tone often associated with opera of this time. | ||||
| Arias - Top | ||||
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