Ulysses’ Homecoming, English Touring Opera, ETO, Hackney Empire, October 2016
Posted on 16 October 2016The text for this 1640 opera was written specially to attract the 73-year old Monteverdi to Venice, where opera had gone public for the first time just three years earlier. It is a remarkable work based on the second half of Homer’s Odyssey, starting with the Phaecians taking the hero back to Ithaca after 20 …