Christopher Glynn on Ryedale's Festival Opera "The Coronation of Poppea‪"‬ Radio Lammermuir

Lammermuir Festival presents opera for the first time this year in collaboration with Ryedale Festival Opera.
We talk to Christopher Glynn, Artistic Director of the Ryedale Festival about this new production and new translation of Monteverdi's Coronation of Poppea: a gripping tale of lust, power, ambition and betrayal in imperial Rome.

The opera will be performed at The Lammermuir Festival this year on Saturday 13 September at 7.00 pm at the Brunton Theatre in Musselburgh with the Ryedale Festival Opera, Eboracum Baroque and conductor Christopher Glynn.
Visit www.lammermuirfestival.co.uk for more details and tickets.

Music featured in this podcast:
"Pur ti miro" with Sylvia McNair, Dana Hanchard, and English Baroque Solosit and John Eliot Gardiner
"Prologue: Sinfonia" with City of London Baroque Sinfonia and Richard Hickox

Coronation of Poppea photo from Ryedale Festival Opera: Emma Lambe