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 ...

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 ...

To complete the arithmetic, the tour is honouring Monteverdi’s 450 th birthday this year; and to complete the geography, the performing odyssey began last night, in Bristol, with his penultimate opera ...

“As flies to wanton boys, are we to th’Gods; They kill us for their sport” – poor old Gloucester’s view is one often borne out in classical drama, and the story of Ulysses finds the hero torn between ...

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 ...

Martin Pearlman’s amiable essay observes that there cannot be a single ‘correct’ way to bring about an effective interpretation of this problematic score. In principle his performing edition inclines ...

Homers epic tale of Ulyssess return from the Trojan War provides the story for this heady 17thcentury opera by Claudio Monteverdi Our hero Thomas Allen struggles to get home to his wife Penelope ...

Review: The return of Ulysses, Pinchgut Opera, Sydney. Claudio Monteverdi entered the 73rd year of his life when he composed his opera, Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria ...

Opera Philadelphia has made a big commitment to new repertoire, and the company’s first commission, in partnership with Gotham Chamber Opera, is terrific. “Charlie Parker’s Yardbird”—which had its ...