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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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 ...

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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 ...

The hinges of musical history have typically afforded one or two artists most associated with them. At the horizon of the Renaissance looking over into the Baroque period was Italian composer Claudio ...

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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 ...