Reviews: Mark Tucker and Friends St Paul's Church, Hockley

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The combination of early seventeenth-century Italian poetry and music has bequeathed us heady results, explicitly describing the torments of unrequited love and the lustful delights of consummation, and it is Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea, one of the first operas ever written for a paying public, that most exemplifies these emotions.

Its tabloid story of honeypot seduction, enforced suicide, attempted assassination, partner-shedding and continual debauchery made a brilliant structure for Saturday's presentation of Mark Tucker's pasticcio amoroso "Consumed by a Kiss", continuing this year's Birmingham Early Music Festival theme of "The Food of Love".

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Reviews: Mark Tucker and Friends St Paul's Church, Hockley

Extracts from the opera formed nodal points in the narrative, co...

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