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The central question was always about how much needs to be added to the surviving notes in order to make Poppea viable on stage. Gardiner and his advisers believe that nothing needs adding and... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010
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Constanze Backes (soprano), Sylvia McNair (soprano), Roberto Balconi (alto), Francesco Ellero D'Artegna (bass), Noel Mann (bass), Marinella Pennicchi (soprano), Michael Chance (alto), Nigel Robson (tenor), Julian Clarkson (bass), Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano), Mark Tucker (tenor), Dana Hanchard (soprano), Bernarda Fink (contralto), Catherine Bott (soprano) English Baroque Soloists Sir John Eliot Gardiner Recorded: 1993-12 Recording Venue: Queen Elizabeth Hall, London Show 38 remaining tracks for Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea Hide 38 tracks for Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea
2010
The central question was always about how much needs to be added to the surviving notes in order to make Poppea viable on stage. Gardiner and his advisers believe that nothing needs adding and that the 'orchestra' played only when explicitly notated in the score and was a very small group.
2011 edition
a purposeful, strongly characterized performance...Sylvia McNair is a seductive Poppea and Anne Sofie von Otter a deeply moving Ottavia, both singing ravishingly...in the sensuous duet which closes the opera, the clashing intervals of the voices are given a degree of abrasiveness, suggesting that, though this is a happy and beautiful ending, the characters still have their sinister side.
