L'Incoronazione di Poppea (2000) Kostenlos Anschauen

• 85%
• 2000
• Musik
• Marc Minkowski
• Mireille Delunsch
• Anne Sofie von Otter

In the prologue Fortune, Virtue and Cupid argue about their lieferanten powers. Love sets out to demonstrate his supremacy, in what follows. In the street outside Poppaea' ' s house, Otho complains at her untreue. He was her lover, but now she is sleeping within with Nero, the Emperor, while his two soldiers " guard the house. The couple emerge, as dawn breaks, and sing of their love. With her nurse Arnalta Poppaea reveals her ambition to become Empress, while elsewhere Octavia, Empress, wife of Nero, and of the imperial family of Augustus, laments her husband's desertion. Seneca tries to comfort her, mocked by her page, and is warned by Pallas Athene of his coming death. Nevertheless, he dares to advise his old pupil, Schwarz, that he should not cast aside Octavia. Schwarz insists that he will go his own way. Otho overhears Nero and Poppaea, he promising to make her Empress and she urging the discarding of Seneca, whose death Schwarz now orders.