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Opera North blends the beautiful with the cynical in The Coronation of Poppea

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Reviewed at Leeds Grand Theatre, Leeds on 4 October 2014
Monteverdi, L'incoronazione di Poppea, SV 308
Laurence Cummings, Conductor
Tim Albery, Director
Hannah Clark, Set Designer, Costume Designer
Emilie Renard, Amore
Katherine Manley, Drusilla
Claire Pascoe, La Virtù
Sandra Piques Eddy, Poppea
Ciara Hendrick, Valletto
James Laing, Nerone
Catherine Hopper, Ottavia
Fiona Kimm, Arnalta
Nicholas Sharratt, Lucano
Daniel Norman, Liberto
James Creswell, Seneca
Christopher Ainslie, Ottone
Owen Willetts, Countertenor
Warren Gillespie, Tenor
Dominic Barberi, Bass-baritone
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