Return of Ulysses

Monteverdi and Prokofiev

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January 14th 2018
Two of the shows I added to my London experience were a ballet (the brilliant Matthew Bourne’s version of Cinderella, with music by Prokofiev) and an opera (the ROH version of Monteverdi’s Return of Ulysses). The Monteverdi was musically lovely but disappointing in every other way. It was very much in the round, produced in the somewhat cavernous Roundhouse in Camden, a former railroad rou ... read more

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Great Britain, the dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, played a leading role in developing parliamentary democracy and in advancing literature and science. At its zenith, the British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the ear... ... read more