Polly Graham’s Longborough Festival Opera production of Monteverdi’s Il Ritorno D’Ulisse in Patria – her first full production as director since she became artistic director at Longborough in 2018 – ...
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Edinburgh International Festival: And so to the second opera in Monteverdi's trilogy based on Homer's Odyssey with the return of Ulisse to Ithaca. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The ...
John Eliot Gardiner’s ad-hoc company of impressive singers and musicians shine in a beautifully realised semi-staging that sounded totally assured John Eliot Gardiner is celebrating this year’s 450th ...
Il ritorno d’Ulisse is always a harder sell than Poppea. Virtue, chastity and constancy don’t make for quite such an obvious drama, and the opera’s structural oddities – a complicatedly large cast, an ...
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Experiencing opera at Iford is always an intimately involving affair, but early Italian opera suits the cloistered space so well that the audience feels transported back through the centuries. Just as ...
Opera underwent a sea change between 1607, when Claudio Monteverdi’s “L’Orfeo” debuted at the ducal palace in Mantua, and 1640, when his “Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria” was first presented at the ...