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L'incoronazione di Poppea - 1642 | ||||
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 - German translation - Spanish translation | ||||
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. | ||||
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