Name: The Comet Poppea
Start: 2024-11-01T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-11-03T00:00:00.000Z
Location: 23rd Street Armory

Admin

Curtis Institute of Music

Conductor

Marc Lowenstein

Stage director

Yuval Sharon

Orchestra

Curtis Symphony Orchestra

English

Italian

The Comet / Poppea

Philadelphia

United States

23rd Street Armory

The Comet / Poppea: The Comet Lewis, G. A. (+1 More)

Public

Private

Staged

Opera

The Comet

The Coronation of Poppea

Akshay C K

Approved

Curtis Opera Theatre launches the East Coast premiere of The Comet / Poppea, the MacArthur Award-winning composer George Lewis’ highly anticipated operatic setting of W.E.B. Du Bois’s proto-Afrofuturist science fiction short story, The Comet (1920), juxtaposed with Claudio Monteverdi’s hot-blooded political thriller, L’incoronazione di Poppea (1643). Presented on a turntable divided in two halves, these worlds unfold simultaneously, with the stage’s rotation creating a visual and sonic spiral for audiences—inviting associations, dissociations, collisions, and confluences. Directed and conceived by fellow MacArthur-winner Yuval Sharon, this innovative co-production features a stellar cast of Curtis singers led by conductor, Marc Lowenstein.

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Ensemble