Monteverdi 450 – Part III: L'Incoronazione Di Poppea

Monteverdi, an early 17th century genius, is being celebrated by Gardiner and the English Baroque Soloists, one of the world’s leading period instrument orchestras. Together with the Monteverdi Choir – consistently being hailed as one of the best choirs in the world: “If there were a Nobel Prize for choirs, the Monteverdi Choir should be its laureate” (Le Monde) – they stage the surviving trilogy of L’Orfeo, Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria and L’incoronazione di Poppea. In the latter, Kangmin Justin Kim enchants as Nerone. “Nobody masters turning historical facts into sensual musical theatre just as Sir John Eliot Gardiner” (Tagesspiegel)