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 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 ...

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, ...

Monteverdi’s opera about unfettered desire is pulled into the present day in Robin Norton-Hale’s stylised production with fine singing and solid musical support from Yshani Perinpanayagam Robin Norton ...

Monteverdi's "L'Incoronazione di Poppea" is "an amoral play which doesn't hand you a moral perspective," says Stephen Stubbs, co-music director of this Early Music Guild production opening tonight at ...

Some doubts revolve around the musical drama heard in Venice in the winter of 1642-43. What did it sound like, on what instruments? Who was the composer — if not Monteverdi (as is generally but not ...

The Orlando Opera Company’s staging of The Coronation of Poppea is sort of like a production you might see at an ambitious graduate school: It’s modest, but it has its strong points. Most of the main ...

Now we know not to call “The Comet / Poppea” a mashup. That was the obvious expectation before Friday night’s premiere of Yuval Sharon’s latest operatic experiment with his company, the Industry.

Some doubts revolve around the musical drama heard in Venice in the winter of 1642-43. What did it sound like, on what instruments? Who was the composer — if not Monteverdi (as is generally but not ...