Poppea goes to Corinth

I suppose you all know George Petrou and his team! Winner of an Echo Klassik Award for 2008 for his recording of Tamerlano and receiver of excellent reviews by the Press.

On the other hand, all you baroque freaks out there will also be acquainted with ms. Mary-Ellen Nesi, the young, distinguished greek mezzo singing Adronico in this recording and that you may also remember in the "Ercole" (nude) dvd, or the new Ariodante dvd etc etc.


Well, it seems that ms. Nesi gave the idea for an Opera Festival in Ancient Corinth that has already hosted quite a few productions (since 2003).


In 2003 it was Handel's Oreste, in 2004 it was Paisiello's L' Olympiade, in 2005 it was Arianna in Creta, in 2007 it was Monteverdi's "Il ritorno d' Ulisse..." and finally in August 2008 we 'll have the chance to watch a new production of Monteverdi's
L' Incoronazione di Poppea.


Here's the info of the Press release:

L’Incoronazione di Poppea
Musical direction: GEORGE PETROU
Stage director: MARIA GYPARAKI
Set and Costume designer: PAUL THANOPOULOS

Poppea: JENNY DRIVALA
Nerone: FLORIN CEZAR OUATU
Ottavia: MARY-ELLEN NESI
Ottone: IRINI KARAIANNI
Seneca: PETROS MAGOULAS
Arnalda: PAUL ZACHARIADIS
Drusilla+Virtu: MYRSINI MARGARITI
Amore+Damigella: MINA POLYCHRONOU
Valletto+Fortuna: KASSANDRA DIMOPOULOU
Lucano: YANNIS FILIAS
Soldati: DIMITRIS NALBANTIS,YANNIS FILIAS
Capitano: ANDREAS PAPAGRIGORIADIS

Ensemble MONTEVERDI (on period instruments)

Temple of Octavia-Ancient Corinth

Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 of August, 2008
Performance starts at 21:00

Admission free (how cool is that?)

And you know what they say...Best things in life are free.

Parsi will be there.

ps. G. Petrou will also be the conductor of the new production of Gluck's Alceste planned for the 2008/9 season of the Athens Megaron.