On the unfinished re-visitation of Monteverdi’s 1643 opera
The first showing of previously unexplored archival documents related to Berio’s 2003 unfinished “re-visitation” of Monteverdi’s 1643 opera L’incoronazione di Poppea for the Los Angeles opera, preserved at the Sacher Foundation.
Curators
Giuseppe Gerbino (Columbia University)
Mauro Calcagno (University of Pennsylvania)
Thomas Peattie (University of Mississippi; Academy Fellow)
Sponsors
Paul Sacher Foundation. The Italian Academy; Music Department; Italian Department; Heyman Center for the Humanities; European Institute; and Reiner Fund (all at Columbia University). Italian Cultural Institute of New York. The Center for Italian Studies and the Music Department (both at the University of Pennsylvania).
This exhibition is part of the Monteverdi at 450: Experiments in Sound, Image, and Movement event.
