L'INCORONAZIONE DI POPPEA

Realizing that 2012 was a great year for this prog/electronic genre, to keep up the good news Geir Jenssen´s (aka BIOSPHERE), released "L'incoronazione di Poppea" an electronics meets Claude Monteverdi´s 1642 opera of the same name, comissioned project.

Not to scare non-opera lovers as myself, this is the kind of opera I will surely attend and sadly even consider it brief.

Resembling a sinking museum of gigantic white-blue sculptures alongside drowning women´s laments, tainted by deep dramatic or subtle flowing melody lines into sometimes sweet others chaotic or simply raw musical environments, without subduing nor losing the grandeur of its operatic root.

Electronic/crossover experimentation at its best.

Bravo!! ****4.5 solid PA stars.