Offer,Monteverdi: Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria

Hana Blažíková (Minerva/Fortuna), Furio Zanasi (Ulisse), Lucile Richardot (Penelope), Michał Czerniawski (Pisandro), Gareth Treseder (Anfinomo), Gianluca Buratto (Tempo/Nettuno/Antinoo), English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner

Gardiner and Rooke’s conception for Ulisse is simple, direct and subtle. Richardot captures Penelope’s loneliness and constrained emotions...Furio Zanasi is a world-weary yet dignified Ulisse. — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2022 More…

Release Date: 20th May 2022
Catalogue No: OA1348D
Label: Opus Arte

Gramophone Magazine

Awards Issue 2022

DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
International Classical Music Awards

2023

Nominated - Video: Opera

Monteverdi: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria

Hana Blažiková (soprano), Furio Zanasi (baritone), Lucile Richardot (mezzo-soprano), Michał Czerniawski, Gareth Treseder, Gianluca Buratto (bass), English Baroque Soloists (early music ensemble)
Monteverdi Choir
Sir John Eliot Gardiner

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Claudio Monteverdi was a pioneer in the origins and development of opera, taking vocal music beyond Renaissance polyphony and entering a modern era in which genuine feelings and emotions are expressed through a wide variety of characters. Part of a late flowering in Monteverdi’s illustrious career, Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria is considered the most tender and moving of his three surviving operas. It takes its narrative from the second half of Homer’s Odyssey, presenting Ulysses as a flawed hero; a lone wanderer who has to overcome cruel tests, terrible hardships, treachery and deception before he can be reunited with his faithful queen Penelope and recover his kingdom. Recorded in Venice’s historical Teatro La Fenice, this semi-staged production is part of John Eliot Gardiner’s acclaimed celebration of Monteverdi’s 450th anniversary, a true milestone in Western cultural history.

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Awards Issue 2022

Gardiner and Rooke’s conception for Ulisse is simple, direct and subtle. Richardot captures Penelope’s loneliness and constrained emotions...Furio Zanasi is a world-weary yet dignified Ulisse.

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