The Coronation of Poppea

Ryedale Festival Opera
Eboracum Baroque
Nina Brazier Director
Sophie Mosberger Designer
Christopher Glynn Conductor

Lammermuir Festival’s first opera is Monteverdi’s gripping and shocking tale of lust, power, ambition and betrayal in imperial Rome.

Composed in Venice in 1642, it tells the story of a beautiful courtesan’s ruthless ascent to the throne as Nero’s wife and features some of the most ravishingly sensuous music of the 17th Century.

Monteverdi’s greatest opera is strikingly and disturbingly relevant to our own time in its penetrating exploration of the corruption of power.

A sparkling young cast sings in this new production, staged in collaboration with Yorkshire’s
Ryedale Festival in a new translation by John Warrack.

“Ryedale Festival Opera is an object lesson to our large opera companies…each year (it) offers an operatic production of the highest quality.”
Yorkshire Post

“It was youth to the fore in the startlingly talented cast of Nina Brazier’s production at the Ryedale Festival”

“The show was a triumph, another feather in Ryedale’s operatic cap”
Martin Dreyer, Opera magazine, September 2014.

“Evenings like this are too good to miss.”
Opera Magazine on Ryedale Festival Opera

Duration 3 hours 15 minutes