Name: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria
Start: 2002-02-24T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2002-04-14T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Opernhaus

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Mezzosoprano

Vesselina Kasarova

Penelope

Brititte Pinter

Dietrich Henschel

L'humana fragiità

Tenore

Ulisse

Soprano

Malin Hartelius

Melantho

Isabel Rey

Minerva

Amore

Martina Janková

La Fortuna

Giunone

Cornelia Kallisch

Eryclea

Jonas Kaufmann

Telemaco

Paul Agnew

Rudolf Schasching

Basso

Reinhard Mayr

Antino

Martin Zysset

Pisandro

Thomas Mohr

Eumete

Controtenore

Martin Oro

Afinoo

Boguslaw Bidzinski

Eurimaco

Pavel Daniluk

Nettuno

Giuseppe Scorsin

Il Tempo

Anton Scharinger

Giove

Direzione d'orchestra

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Regia

Klaus Michael Grüber

Scenografia

Gilles Aillaud

Costumi

Eva Dessecker

Luci

Jürgen Hoffmann

Coreografia

Megan Latham

Direzione del coro

Ernst Raffelsberger

Roger Widmer

Opernhaus Zürich

Orchestra

La Scintilla

Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria

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Opernhaus

Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria by C. Monteverdi, from Zurich Opera, performed at Zurich Opera House, 2002. Directed by Klaus Michael Grüber, conductor Nikolas Harnoncourt, starring Jonas Kaufmann, Thomas Mohr, Vesselina Kasarova, Dietrich Henschel, Martina Janková, Cornelia Kallisch, Isabel Rey, Malin Hartelius, Rudolf Schasching, Martin Zysset, Martin Oró.

After ten years battling in the Trojan War—and another ten on an epic journey homeward—Ulysses returns to his homeland. Disguised as a beggar, the king of Ithaca must recover his wife, his son, and his people...

Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (Venice, 1640), directed here by Klaus-Michael Grüber and conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt ("The musical adventurer par excellence, the scholarly conductor with temperament, the thinking musician who makes music with rough edges“—Gramophone), achieves a perfect dramatic balance, stirring the imagination and instantly transporting the viewer to a long-ago time. The all-star cast features one of the earliest recorded appearances by the great Jonas Kaufmann, who makes his presence felt as Ulisse's son Telemaco!

Claudio Monteverdi was a key player not only in creating the opera as we know it; he also spent nearly forty years after 1607's L'Orfeo experimenting and innovating in the form, contributing to the evolution of the musical-artistic genre that—for centuries, until the advent of cinema—would dominate Western cultural life. Ulisse is one of his three extant operas, all of which are among the highest achievements of the form.

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