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Poppaea Sabina
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Poppaea Sabina (pŏpē`ə səbī`nə), d. A.D. 65, Roman empress, wife of Nero Nero (Nero Claudius Caesar) , A.D. 37–A.D. 68, Roman emperor (A.D. 54–A.D. 68). He was originally named Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus and was the son of Cnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (consul in A.D.
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. While married to Otho Otho, Marcus Salvius , A.D. 32–A.D. 69, Roman emperor (Jan.–April, A.D. 69). He was a friend of Nero, and his wife, Poppaea Sabina, became Nero's mistress; Otho was repaid (A.D. 58) with the province of Lusitania. In A.D.
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, her second husband, she became mistress of Nero, whom she finally married in A.D. 62. She had great influence over Nero, inducing him to have his mother (Agrippina II), his former wife (Octavia), and the philosopher Seneca killed. One story has it that in a fit of temper Nero kicked her to death.


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A modern production of Poppea must be an imaginative reconstruction; Opera Atelier chose the instrumentally rich edition by the British editor Clifford Bartlettwhich Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra played beautifully.
Her Poppea, at Glyndebourne this summer, traded on her pin-up image, but was uninterestingly sung.
I also took a trip south, primarily to see The Coronation of Poppea at Glyndebourne, where people don evening dress in the middle of the afternoon to eat picnics in a long interval which is, for a fair chunk of the audience, the whole point of the performance.
 
 
 
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