![]() L’incoronazione di Poppea, Monteverdi’s last work, was first performed in 1643 and is the earliest in the repertoire of regularly staged operas. If you are an opera lover unsure whether to venture beyond your sweet spot of late 18th and 19th Century works into earlier works by such as Monteverdi, father of the art form, I advise you to start by sampling this opera in the most unlikely place: at the end, with the final duet of the opera, "Put ti miro, pur ti godo", whose luscious suspensions and yearning eroticism are as sensual as anything by Puccini. 020 8418 L’incoronazione di Poppea - A Survey of the Recordings
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