"This smart and sexy production of L'incoronazione di Poppea is the second show from last year's Glyndebourne Festival to make it onto DVD. While it might share a few cast members with Laurent Pelly's updated Hansel and Gretel, it would be difficult to imagine a greater contrast ... Alice Coote's Nero is scarily power-crazed but, dressed in a dinner jacket liberally quaffing a variety of drinks throughout the evening, is without doubt used to the finer things in life ... The show also, undoubtedly, benefits greatly from the presence of Danielle De Niese ... Musical direction comes from Emmanuelle Haïm, bringing playing of rare beauty from the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment".