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Un Couronnement de Poppée exaltant par Sir John Eliot Gardiner

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“l’expressivité du chant, lumineux, presque nu et empreint d’une sensualité tragique.”
Reviewed at Philharmonie de Paris: Grande salle Pierre Boulez, Paris on 18 September 2017
Monteverdi, L'incoronazione di Poppea, SV 308
Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Conductor
Elsa Rooke, Director
Hana Blažíková, Soprano
Kangmin Justin Kim, Countertenor
Marianna Pizzolato, Contralto
Gianluca Buratto, Bass
Carlo Vistoli, Countertenor
Lucile Richardot, Mezzo-soprano
Anna Dennis, Soprano
Furio Zanasi, Baritone
Gareth Treseder, Tenor
Zachary Wilder, Tenor
Francesca Boncompagni, Soprano
John Taylor Ward, Bass
A rare Handel pastoral ode at Carnegie Hall
****1
Gardiner and the English Baroque Soloists roll back the centuries
****1
Semele crashes and burns, but Louise Alder soars up at Ally Pally
****1
Gardiner steps into his Ring of Cantatas in Leipzig
****1
A religious experience at Prague Spring
****1
Evil triumphs beautifully in Monteverdi 450 Poppea
****1
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