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 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 ...

What do 17th century Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi and 20th century writer and civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois have in common? Aspects of their work have been juxtaposed in a new opera, ...

“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 ...

Coronation of Poppea charts the consuming erotic obsession of the Emperor Nero for the beautiful Poppea Sabina. Ruthlessly sweeping aside anyone who stands in the way of their union - including Nero's ...

It's the most vivid of early operas – but not much goes well in this curiously inert, unmoving staging Telegraph Opera Critic, Nicholas Kenyon, is an author and academic, and former Controller of ...

Raw and raunchy yet nuanced and delicate, The Coronation of Poppea is the most cynical of black farces. As Nero dumps his wife for a courtesan and turns paranoid psychotic, evil thrives and virtue is ...

“A Concert of Passion & Poetry: Domingo, von Stade and Nagano” will replace the world premiere of Luciano Berio’s re-orrchestration of Monteverdi’s “L’incoronazione di Poppea” as the L.A. Opera’s ...