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Flinty graves: a chilling L'incoronazione di Poppea from the Royal Academy of Music

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Reviewed at Shoreditch Town Hall, London on 20 May 2016
Monteverdi, L'incoronazione di Poppea, SV 308
Royal Academy Opera
Dame Jane Glover, Conductor
John Ramster, Director
Louis Carver, Set Designer
Michelle Bradbury, Costume Designer
Eve Daniell, Nerone
Emma Stannard, Poppea
Patrick Terry, Ottone
Lorena Paz Nieto, Drusilla
Katie Stevenson, La Virtù
Claire Barnett-Jones, Ottavia
Timothy Murphy, Seneca
Alys Mererid Roberts, Amore
Nika Gorič, La Fortuna
Laura Zigmintaitė, Valletto
Helen Brackenbury, Arnalta
William Blake, Lucano
Dominic Bowe, Liberto, Littore
Alex Otterburn, Mercurio
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