Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea - fully staged production
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Although the programme indicates that only a certain someone will be conducting the performances, the Iván Fischer Opera Company's brand-new production also has an additional, invisible conductor involved. As the Budapest Festival Orchestra's music director puts in, in L'incoronazione di Poppea, "Amor proves that he is the one who conducts everything in the world." "And Freud would nod in agreement," he adds. This approach centred on love characterises Fischer's most recent opera production. Comprising the company, along with the orchestra, are some of the most sought-after soloists working in early music, arriving here from every corner of the earth, from Scotland to Trinidad.
Portraying the title character will be Jeanine De Bique, a star singer whose "dramatic presence and versatility" have been praised by the Washington Post. In the role of Nerone, we will get to see Valer Sabadus, a countertenor born in the Romanian city of Arad and the 2020 winner of the Handel Music Prize. According to the Guardian's critic, his singing is characterised by "ravishing control and finely honed technique." Also in the cast will be Reginald Mobley, another countertenor and one who is popular for his clear, sparkling, pure, understandable and articulate voice, as Ottone, soprano Núria Rial, who can boast winning the awards for "young artist of the year" and "best opera recording", as Drusilla, and Gianluca Buratto, who has previously worked with Sir John Eliot Gardiner on his Monteverdi's operas, as Seneca. Joining them will also be some returning guests, such as Stuart Patterson, familiar from the BFO's production of Falstaff, and mezzo-soprano Luciana Mancini, whom Bachtrack said scintillated as the key figure in L'Orfeo.
Presented by: Müpa Budapest, Budapest Festival Orchestra
Conductor:
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Ivan Fischer
Ivan Fischer Opera Company:
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PoppeaJeanine De Bique
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NeroneValer Sabadus
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OttoneReginald Mobley
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DrusillaNúria Rial
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Ottavia/La VirtùLuciana Mancini
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Arnalta/NutriceStuart Patterson
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SenecaGianluca Buratto
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1. Soldato/Lucano/1. Famigliare/TribuneThomas Walker
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2. Soldato/Liberto/2. Famigliare/TribuneFrancisco Fernández-Rueda
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3. Famigliare/Littore/ConsolePeter Harvey
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La Fortuna/Damigella/VenereSilvia Frigato
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Valletto/AmoreJakob Geppert (member of the Chorakademie Dortmund)
Featuring:
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Budapest Festival Orchestra (on period instruments)
Creators:
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Assistant directorHannah Gelesz
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Costume designAnna Biagiotti
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Set designAndrea Tocchio
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LightingTamás Bányai
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Stage managerWendy Griffin-Reid
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Technical directorRobert Zentai
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Hungarian translation and language coachÉva Lax
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DirectorIvan Fischer, Marco Gandini
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