Claudio Monteverdi · 1567–1643 · Italian
| Composed | 1643 |
| Instrumentation | Not yet confirmed. We publish TBD rather than a guess — a wrong instrumentation is a hiring error that costs real money. |
| Duration | 180 minutes |
| Soloists | Poppea (sop), Nerone (sop castrato — today sop/mez travesti or countertenor), Ottavia (sop), Ottone (countertenor/mez), Seneca (bass), Drusilla (sop) + some 20 further roles |
| Genre | Opera |
| Tier | Festival — a major undertaking |
| Editions & hire | Bärenreiter ↗ |
| Source | Bärenreiter critical edition (Schulze, 2017) with the manuscript situation documented ↗ |