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L'Incoronazione di Poppea

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Coronation of Poppea
Company
San Francisco Opera Association
Location
San Francisco, CA
Venue
War Memorial Opera House
Season
1980-1981
Language
Italian

Creative/Crew

Conductor
Production
Stage Director(s)
Designer
Lighting Designer
Sound Designer
Chorus Director
Musical Preparation
Harpsichord continuo
Organ continuo
Prompter
Assistant Stage Director(s)
Stage Manager(s)
Costumes by

Cast

Ottone (Otho), Poppea's former lover
Soldier of the Emperor's bodyguard
Second Soldier
Nerone (Nero), Emperor of Rome
Arnalta, Poppea's old nurse
Ottavia (Octavia), Empress of Rome
Drusilla, Lady-in-waiting to Ottavia
Seneca, philosopher, Nero's former tutor
Valletto, a young attendant to Ottavia
Pallade (Pallas), goddess of wisdom
Liberto, captain of the guard
Damigella, a maid in Ottavia's service
Lucano, friend of Nerone
Amor, god of love
Littore, lector of the guards

Show Dates

Time and Place

Rome, 64 A.D.

Scenes

Act I, Scene 1 -- Before Poppea's house
Scene 2 -- In Poppea's house
Scene 3 -- Ottavia's chamber in Nerone's palace
Scene 4 -- In Poppea's house
Scene 5 -- Before Poppea's house
Scene 6 -- A garden
Scene 7 -- Seneca's court
Act II, Scene 1 -- Nerone's palace
Scene 2 -- Ottavia's chamber in Nerone's palace
Scene 3 -- Street
Scene 4 -- Poppea's bedroom
Scene 5 -- Street
Scene 6 -- Ottavia's chamber in Nerone's palace
Scene 7 -- Street
Scene 8 -- Nerone's palace -- The coronation

Media

Legacy Commission

Realized by Raymond Leppard

Notes

1981 Summer season

Scenery constructed in San Francisco Opera Scenic Studios

Baroque organ courtesy of
City College of San Francisco

Regal organ supplied by
Dr. Vernon Read and the
San Jose Collegium Musicum

Harpsichords supplied by
Bjarne B. Dahl, Harpsichords,
Sunnyvale, California

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