Baroque modernity: Jan Lauwers’ Poppea at the Wiener Staatsoper

By Chanda VanderHart, 29 May 2021

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“I would burn down Rome to listen to Kate Lindsey sing the phone book”

Reviewed at Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna on 28 May 2021

Monteverdi, L'incoronazione di Poppea, SV 308

Vienna State Opera

Pablo Heras-Casado, Conductor

Jan Lauwers, Director, Set Designer

Lemm & Barkey, Costume Designer

Ken Hioco, Lighting Designer

Elke Janssens, Dramaturgy

Kate Lindsey, Nerone

Slávka Zámečníková, Poppea

Sir Willard White, Seneca

Christina Bock, Ottavia

Xavier Sabata, Ottone

Vera-Lotte Boecker, La Virtù, Drusilla

Isabel Signoret, Amore, Valletto

Johanna Wallroth, La Fortuna

Thomas Ebenstein, Arnalta

Josh Lovell, Lucano

Hiroshi Amako, Liberto

Erik Van Heyningen, Littore

Daniel Jenz, Nutrice

Concentus Musicus Wien

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Chanda VanderHart

Dr. Chanda VanderHart is a pianist, musicologist and creative who lives, works and plays in Vienna, Austria. For more on Chanda and her projects, click here.