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Helen Sherman

18 November 2017

9:00 AM

18 November 2017

9:00 AM

This year sees the 450th anniversary of the birth of Claudio Monteverdi, a pioneer of opera and a crucial transitional figure between the music of the Renaissance and the Baroque period. He is credited with the transformation of a private court entertainment into a major commercial genre in Venice with The Coronation of Poppea in 1643.

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