Monteverdi and Prokofiev
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
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