One of the many delicious conceits of Busenello's ground-breaking libretto for Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea is a kind of "reality theatre" contest between the allegorical figures of Fortune, ...

Director Walter Sutcliffe’s modern-day production of Monteverdi’s take on Emperor Nero scores some hits but as many misses. Musically, though, it is outstanding A surfeit of sex, skulduggery and ...

Impressive playing by the English Baroque Soloists and standout performers including Kangmin Justin Kim make a memorable semi-staging It’s not simply the ravishingly beautiful music that makes the ...

Aryssa Leigh Burrs, center left, and Caitlin Wood, center right, star as Emperor Nero (or Nerone) and Poppea in the IN Series production of Monteverdi’s “Poppea” at Dupont Underground on Friday.

Archaeologists have unearthed breathtaking frescos and new architectural features at the extraordinary Villa di Poppea near Pompei, believed to have belonged to Nero’s second wife. As one of the most ...

Claudio Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea, revived here by Ensemble OrQuesta as part of the Arcola Theatre's Grimeborn season, is a highly controversial and disputed work of baroque opera which ...

An early baroque masterpiece, Monteverdi's L’incoronazione di Poppea was inspired by The Annals by Tacitus and celebrates the love of the emperor Nero and the courtesan Poppea. Filmed at the 2008 ...

In popular imagination, Nero ranks as the worst Roman emperor: decadent, brutal and self-indulgent, playing his fiddle while Rome burned. Recent scholarship takes a more nuanced view (and dispenses ...