Malena Ernman and Danielle de Niese stage-snogging to Monteverdi is the single hottest thing I've witnessed in a long, long time.

Back a bit - upon my very first encounter with L'Incoronazione di Poppea, I thought "Virtù and Fortuna having a cat fight over humanity? How very Machiavelli." Which basically sold the whole thing for me right there. ( Read more... )