FULL THE COMET/POPPEA (George Lewis, Monteverdi) New York 2025 Amanda Lynn Bottoms, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Kearstin Piper Brown
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: THE COMET/POPPEA
- Composer: Lewis George, Monteverdi Claudio
- Libretto: Douglas Kennedy based on E.B. Du Bois’s short story The Comet (1920), Giovanni Francesco Busenello Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Lincoln Center, New York, American Modern Opera Company (AMOC*)
- Recorded: June 20, 2025
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Amanda Lynn Bottoms, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Kearstin Piper Brown, Kiera Duffy, Evan Hughes, Joelle Lamarre, Whitney Morrison, Davone Tines
- Conductor: Mark Lowenstein
- Orchestra: Instrumental Ensemble
- Stage Director: Yuval Sharon
- Stage Designer: Mimi Lien
- Costume Designer: Oana Botez
- Lighting Designer: John Torres
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Lincoln Center
- Date Published: 2025
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs
- Video Recording from: vk FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
The American Modern Opera Company (AMOC*), a leading force among today’s most innovative and visionary interdisciplinary ensembles, opens their Run AMOC* Festival within Summer for the City with the New York premiere of The Comet/Poppea.
This production fuses Monteverdi’s The Coronation of Poppea (1642) with W.E.B. Du Bois’s short story The Comet (1920). Directed by Yuval Sharon, it explores power, survival, and race through the lens of cosmic disaster. George Lewis’s evocative new score—a 2025 Pulitzer finalist—links these narratives in a visionary operatic landscape. The stellar cast features AMOC* members Davóne Tines and Anthony Roth Costanzo. Tony Award winner and Lincoln Center Artist-in-Residence (2022–24) Mimi Lien’s rotating set merges ancient Rome with comet-ravaged New York, creating an apocalyptic, immersive experience. The audience is seated on the stage of the theater, flanking these spinning worlds, with the rarified backdrop of the vast empty auditorium.
The Comet / Poppea is realized through a landmark partnership among organizations across the United States, produced by Anthony Roth Costanzo and Cath Brittan, AMOC* (American Modern Opera Company), The Industry, Curtis Institute of Music, Yale Schwarzman Center, and Michigan Central Art.