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Traditionally, an opera is performed with (a) an orchestra, consisting of many different instruments, and (b) tickets, for which you must pay money. Often a good, fancy-dinner-sized chunk of money. So how is OperaHub getting around that for Claudio Monetverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea?

Love can change the world. Distilling years of Roman history into a single, frenzied day of dagger-brandishing and lyre-strumming, Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea demonstrates this platitude, and also an important corollary: Love doesn't care whether the world changes for the better or the considerably worse. Poppea and Nerone are both the latter.

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