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who up thinking about that one opera they saw four years ago and the video isn’t available anywhere 🙋‍♀️

#opera tag #opera #les éclairs #philippe hersant #elsa benoit #this aria is so prettyyyyyyyy

So, screencaps to come, but if folks are curious about this really excellent production of L’Incoronazione di Poppea complete with some, you know, music...

Here's the opening.

And here's the ending.

I think they are awfully representative.

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Piangerò la sorte mia from Handel's Giulio Cesare, sung by Elsa Benoit (accompanied by Donald Wages).

#opera #opera tag #handel #giulio cesare #elsa benoit #now where's a full staging @ baystaats

Mostly Mezzo Mondays: baroque edition

Mostly Mezzo Mondays: a recurring (though not weekly) feature where, on Monday nights, I blog a list of the upcoming broadcasts that have caught my eye on World Concert Hall. My interests: baroque vocal music, art song recitals, and a list of favorite singers.

Emmanuelle de Negri and Ana Quintans—both of whom I remember from the Hippolyte et Aricie at Glyndebourne that indirectly kicked off this blog—are among the soloists in another Rameau opera, Les Indes galantes, this time at the Beaune Festival. Valentin Tournet conducts the La Chapelle Harmonique Choir and Orchestra. Live broadcast Friday, July 26 on France Musique.*

Alice Coote, Gianlucca Buratto, Franco Fagioli, Elsa Benoit, and Iestyn Davies star in a video livestream of Handel’s Agrippina from the Bayerische Staatsoper on Sunday, July 28 (NOT Tuesday the 23rd as mistakenly stated earlier on my blog). Ivor Bolton conducts; Barrie Kosky is the director.

I haven’t yet heard soprano Mariana Flores in performance but the name of baroque composer Barbara Strozzi caught my eye in the listing for Flores’ Proms concert with the Cappella Mediterranea (conducted by Leonardo García Alarcón). Monday, July 29 on BBC Radio 3.*

* France Musique and BBC Radio 3 usually make concert broadcasts available for listening on demand on their websites for a few weeks following the initial broadcast. The Beeb is pretty reliable; France Musique is maybe 80% hit, 20% miss (perhaps due to the terms of their contracts with various orchestras).

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"My destiny is no longer in heaven, but in your beautiful ruby lips."

Ahem.

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So, rather than maybe 10 caps of the whole opera, I bring you many, many more caps of just one scene from the Royal Opera of Versailles production of L'incoronazione di Poppea. The scene in question is the Act 2 duet between Nerone and Lucano, which in this production becomes a threesome with Poppea.

The production has a minimal set, and all the characters are on stage the entire time. So this scene takes place on Nerone's makeshift dinner table with everyone watching and the dead body of Seneca on the floor in front of the table.

Establishing shot

Not wanting to miss out out what Poppea and Lucano are doing, Nerone makes the eminently sensible decision to crawl on the table to join them.

Nerone is a little shocked at himself, but Poppea makes sure it's not weird for anyone.

And then she moves back to her new boytoy, who she really looks like she could eat for breakfast, and he would thank her for it. (FYI, the hairpulling was very well timed with the music.)