Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On one half of the revolving stage of Yuval Sharon's "The Comet / Poppea" is an adaptation of Claudio Monteverdi's "The Coronation ...

“The Comet/Poppea” radically pares down a classic and blends it with a premiere by George E. Lewis for an original show that will travel widely. By Seth Colter Walls Morality takes a hike in Claudio ...

The renowned opera director and founder of The Industry is premiering 'The Comet / Poppea,' a mash-up of Monteverdi and a short story by W.E.B. Du Bois, at MOCA's Geffen Contemporary. By Jordan Riefe ...

Monteverdi’s opera about unfettered desire is pulled into the present day in Robin Norton-Hale’s stylised production with fine singing and solid musical support from Yshani Perinpanayagam Robin Norton ...

Monteverdi's "L'Incoronazione di Poppea" is "an amoral play which doesn't hand you a moral perspective," says Stephen Stubbs, co-music director of this Early Music Guild production opening tonight at ...

Some doubts revolve around the musical drama heard in Venice in the winter of 1642-43. What did it sound like, on what instruments? Who was the composer — if not Monteverdi (as is generally but not ...

Make no mistake about it. The University of Colorado Eklund Opera Program’s production of Claudio Monteverdi’s “The Coronation of Poppea,” opening tonight at the Imig Music Theater, is one of its best ...

There’s nothing like ancient Rome to make for stimulating drama, in all senses of the word, especially if it involves the emperor Nero. Include Poppea, the mistress who maneuvered her way into ...

Allow your mind to meander for an instant during Houston Grand Opera's visually entrancing, musically ravishing production of Claudio Monteverdi's The Coronation of Poppea, which opened Saturday at ...

Some doubts revolve around the musical drama heard in Venice in the winter of 1642-43. What did it sound like, on what instruments? Who was the composer — if not Monteverdi (as is generally but not ...