Poppea

May 12th to 21st, at Jacksons Lane Theatre in Highgate, Hampstead Garden Opera will present Monteverdi’s great masterpiece, L'incoronazione di Poppea, in an innovative new production developed by Simon Iorio.  “For HGO, performing this wonderful work is a very important milestone” says Music Director Oliver John Ruthven.  “Particularly given that we coincide with the 450th anniversary of Monteverdi's birth on the 18th May. This production also marks the first time that HGO will perform an opera in its original language (other than English), together with the launch of our new surtitles system. This is an indication of our pledge as a training opera company to give our singers a complete experience of performing opera, as well as giving our audiences a presentation of this work with not only authentic early music interpretation and instrumentation, but also the original Italian text.”