The dramatic energy and the instinct for colour and meaning in the text which Claudio Cavina has been bringing to the music of Claudio Monteverdi in recent years are newly and richly present in his interpretation of Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria. Having previously directed much-admired recordings of both Orfeo and Poppea (and a wide span of madrigals too), Cavina turns his attention now to the enduring Homeric-inspired tale of constancy and virtue first performed in Venice over 350 years ago. Conscious of the restrictions inherent in the single surviving score of the work (now kept in Vienna) and that it is likely that Monteverdi was not the only composer involved for the original production, Cavina brings a deep understanding to bear on Monteverdi’s inspiration – and also onto the mid-17th century Venetian operatic world as a whole
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