Monteverdi
More than ever, this was Ulysses’ show: Royal Opera’s Return of Ulysses reviewed
Richard Bratby 20 January 2018 9:00 am
Spoiler alert: the final image of John Fulljames’s production of Monteverdi’s The Return of Ulysses at the Roundhouse is haunting.…
Time to end authenticity
Alexandra Coghlan 12 August 2017 9:00 am
They say the first step towards recovery is admitting that you have a problem. So I’m staging an intervention and…
Has there ever been a better time to be a lover of Baroque opera?
Alexandra Coghlan 28 November 2015 9:00 am
Time was when early music was a 6 p.m. concert, Baroque began with Bach and ended with Corelli’s Christmas Concerto,…
Opera North’s Coronation of Poppea: a premium-rate sex-line of an opera
Anna Picard 18 October 2014 9:00 am
Virtue, hide thyself! The Coronation of Poppea opens with a warning and closes with a love duet for a concubine…
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