The Return of Ulysses to his Homeland

2002/07/15 • Released

Music
9.5
N/A

Overview

Claudio Monteverdi's operatic adaptation of this story from Homer's The Odyssey receives a modern and distinctive staging in this 2002 production directed by Humphrey Burton for Les Arts Florissants. Penelope Marijana Mijanovic is left to her own devices when her husband, the heroic Ulysses Kresimir Spicer, goes off to fight in the Trojan Wars. After many years alone, Penelope finds herself attracting a number of suitors who wish to claim her hand; however, what she doesn't realize is that jealous Ulysses has his ways of keeping an eye on her. Production of the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence; from the Theatre du Jeu de Paume.

Director : Humphrey Burton

Casts

William Christie

Conductor

Kresimir Spicer

Marijana Mijanovic

Cyril Auvity

Joseph Cornwell

Bertrand Bontoux

Andreas Gisler

Christophe Laporte

Zachary Stains

Katalin Károlyi

Robert Burt

Geneviève Kaemmerlen

Rachid Ben Abdeslam

Olga Pitarchi

Paul-Henry Vila

Éric Raffard

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