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Francisco Fernández-Rueda

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Lucile Richardot

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Michał Czerniawski

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Gareth Treseder

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Zachary Wilder

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Anna Dennis

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Francesca Boncompagni

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Monteverdi – Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria

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Monteverdi – Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria Monteverdi

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The Return of Ulysses to His Homeland

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Our recording of Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria is now available here: http://hyperurl.co/SDGMonteverdiUlisse


Watch Ana Dennis sing this charming aria from Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria, in which she, Melanto, incites the isolated Penelope, wife of the Ulisse, to abandon fidelity to her absent husband and take pleasure in the love of others.

You can watch all three Monteverdi Trilogy Tour operas, filmed live at Teatro La fenice, Venice, free online on our website https://monteverdi.co.uk/concerts/mon...


The three Monteverdi ensembles – the Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists and Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique – are a leading force on the international music scene. World-class musicians and singers from many nationalities come together to share in the distinctive vision of our Artistic Director, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, in ground-breaking projects that span eight centuries of musical masterpieces.

‘They represent British excellence on their tours abroad, and it is a great privilege to be Parton of such wonderful ambassadors for our country.’

HRH The Prince of Wales, Royal Patron, Monteverdi Choir & Orchestras.

Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria

In celebration of the 450th anniversary of Claudio Monteverdi's birth, Wratislavia Cantans is proud to announce the Opening Celebration of its 52nd edition with two very special performances of Monteverdi’s Il ritorno di Ulisse in patria (The Return of Ulysses to his Homeland). Join us as early music champion Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts the most melancholic and meditative of Monteverdi’s operas!

Monteverdi, celebrated by music historians as the founder of modern opera, was the first to compose a truly remarkable operatic work, his Orfeo in 1607. In doing so, he legitimately brought a new form of music into the mainstream. At the dawn of the 17th century, Venice  was quickly becoming Opera’s epicenter, its streets flooded with commedia dell’arte troupes and six opera houses were established in the vicinity. These initial operas were being written with an emphasis increasingly placed on the individual, and it was Monteverdi who communicated emotion through music for the first time. The previous Renaissance style compositions, which had been conveyed thru polyphonic spectacles with every voice of equal importance and restrained neutral emotions, where abrasively sacred in nature. Claudio Monteverdi, began transforming the miniature form of the madrigal into a full-scale music drama.

Il ritorno di Ulisse in patria (The Return of Ulysses to his Homeland) had its debut in Venice in 1641, as part of the annual carnival season. Based on the second half of Homer’s Odyssey it is a tale of treachery and deception, eventually overcome by fidelity and love, about a Greek warrior during the Trojan war fated to wander for 20 years before he is able to return to his homeland and his long-suffering wife, Penelope. After two decades of war, the weary Ulysses is washed up on the rocky shore of his home island of Ithaca. There, he discovers the hordes of depraved admirers who have besieged his faithful wife and thus he launches into battle to win back her love.

Sir John Eliot Gardiner, acknowledged as a key figure in the early music revival of the past four decades, and his ensembles, the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists, have undertaken a number of large-scale tours, pioneering projects all over the world with the aim of bringing life to music from past centuries by returning it’s relevance to modern audiences.

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Monteverdi – Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria by Monteverdi, From (2017/2017), Directed by Elsa Rooke, John Eliot Gardiner,, Conductor John Eliot Gardiner, NFM (Narodowe Forum Muzyki), Wrocław, Poland

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