{"id":2624,"date":"2025-07-09T16:42:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T16:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marianaflores.com\/?p=2624"},"modified":"2025-07-09T16:42:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T16:42:52","slug":"festival-de-lanaudiere-the-coronation-of-poppea-the-triumph-of-octavia-and-the-mastery-of-alarcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marianaflores.com\/es\/festival-de-lanaudiere-the-coronation-of-poppea-the-triumph-of-octavia-and-the-mastery-of-alarcon\/","title":{"rendered":"Festival de Lanaudi\u00e8re | The Coronation of Poppea, the triumph of Octavia and the mastery of Alarcon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the strength of a masterful\u00a0<em>Orfeo\u00a0<\/em>in 2023, the Cappella Mediterranea conducted by Leonardo Garcia Alarcon made an eagerly awaited return to Lanaudi\u00e8re with Monteverdi\u2019s \u201cother\u201d opera,\u00a0<em>The Coronation of Poppea<\/em>. A different work, conceived at the very end of the composer\u2019s life (whereas\u00a0<em>Orfeo\u00a0<\/em>was written some thirty years earlier) and subject to commercial dictates unheard of for opera at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But beyond all that, I was particularly charmed by soprano, Mariana Flores in the role of Octavia, a noble and somewhat haughty empress, humiliated by the rejection of her emperor husband and driven to plot like a villain to save her marriage and, above all, her title and reputation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an exquisite tight-fitting dress, she was as desirable as a queen should be in legend. But her Olympian presence gave her the appropriate emotional distance, betraying a character that Nero described as \u2018frigid.\u2019 An accusation often tinged with misogyny, but which here refers to the typical attitude of a matron from a prestigious and aristocratic lineage, whose scorned dignity can only be expressed by a certain contempt for the world. Yesterday, Mariana Flores had the most accomplished voice, the most qualitatively holistic, powerfully expressive in her anger, poignant despite her reserve in her ideal high-pitched murmurs. A voice without tonal flaw or timbral approximation. For your humble servant, the queen of the evening, despite her final downfall in the libretto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/panm360.com\/en\/gig_review\/festival-de-lanaudiere-coronation-poppea-opera-monteverdi-gabriel-grcia-alarcon-cappella-mediterranea-amphitheatre-fernand-lindsay-mariana-flores-sophie-juncker\/\">Plus d&rsquo;information<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was particularly charmed by soprano, Mariana Flores in the role of Octavia, a noble and somewhat haughty empress, humiliated by the rejection of her emperor husband and driven to plot like a villain to save her marriage and, above all, her title and reputation.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marianaflores.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marianaflores.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marianaflores.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marianaflores.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marianaflores.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marianaflores.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2625,"href":"https:\/\/www.marianaflores.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624\/revisions\/2625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marianaflores.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marianaflores.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marianaflores.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marianaflores.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}