Il Ritorno d’Ulisse review – a sensuous slice of opulence and luxury

Garsington Opera, Wormsley Estate, Stokenchurch Director John Caird and conductor Laurence Cummings bring Monteverdi back to the Chiltern Hills with polished, festive inclusivity Lightning, it would appear, can strike twice in the Chiltern Hills. In 2022, director John Caird and conductor Laurence Cummings collaborated on a much-admired staging of Monteverdi’s Orfeo, a seminal work from 1607. Four years later, and it’s the turn of Il Ritorno d’Ulisse, another terrific slice of baroque music theatre. Like Ulysses, it took Monteverdi decades to find his way back to the genre he’d helped define d

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