text: In a recent performance of an opera by this man, Robert Burt as Iro gets hit over the head by the harp player as he starts plucking the strings.
full_question: In a recent performance of an opera by this man, Robert Burt as Iro gets hit over the head by the harp player as he starts plucking the strings. He's not Bach, but the conductor John Eliot Gardiner founded a choir named for this composer. He wrote a slow-paced aria with echoing ascending and descending scales that is addressed to Charon and titled "Possente spirito." This composer of The Return of Ulysses to his Homeland wrote an opera in which Ottavia is banished by the Roman emperor for her role in a murder plot. For 10 points, name this early Italian composer of The Coronation of Poppea and Orfeo.
first_sentence: In a recent performance of an opera by this man, Robert Burt as Iro gets hit over the head by the harp player as he starts plucking the strings.