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Gardiner conducts Monteverdi: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria

Gardiner conducts Monteverdi: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria

Opera

Teatro la Fenice

Production Date: 01/01/2017

Duration196 Min

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An exile returns, usurpers are vanquished, and after decades of longing and separation, a husband and wife are reunited at last. Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria takes its story from Homer's Odyssey, but its themes are as eternal and enduring as humanity itself. Often imitated, but never surpassed, Monteverdi's pioneering opera resounds down the centuries, and this powerful concert performance – staged at La Fenice, Venice, in the composer's 450th-anniversary year – assembles some of the 21st century's finest Monteverdi interpreters under the direction of one of his supreme living champions, Sir John Eliot Gardiner.

Soloists
Hana Blažíková (Soprano), Lucile Richardot (Mezzo-Soprano), Michał Czerniawski (Countertenor), Krystian Adam (Tenor), Gareth Treseder (Tenor), Zachary Wilder (Tenor), Furio Zanasi (Baritone), Gianluca Buratto (Bass), Anna Dennis (Soprano), John Taylor Ward (Bass-Baritone), Francesca Boncompagni (Soprano), Robert Burt (Tenor), Francisco Fernández–Rueda (Tenor), Francesca Biliotti (Mezzo-Soprano), Carlo Vistoli (Countertenor), Silvia Frigato (Soprano)
Ensembles
English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir
Conductor
John Eliot Gardiner