Michael Tanner

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L’incoronazione di Poppea (Glyndebourne), Der Rosenkavalier (English National Opera)

issue 31 May 2008

L’incoronazione di Poppea (Glyndebourne), Der Rosenkavalier (English National Opera)

Monteverdi’s last opera L’incoronazione di Poppea was the first opera I saw at Glyndebourne, in 1962. I saw it there again in 1984, once more ‘realised’ by Raymond Leppard, but in a version more complete and somewhat more austerely orchestrated than the first time.

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