The 2010 Oslo recording of Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea is one of the strangest opera videos I have ever seen. Besides having an almost complete set of the characteristics that critics pejoratively assign to Regietheatre it also has a very unusual video treatment that goes well beyond quirky camera angles and overly intrusive close-ups. So the box is being entirely accurate when it states “Based on a performance directed by Ole Anders Tandberg. Adapted and filmed by Anja Stabell and Stein-Roger Bull”.
