IL RITORNO DI ULISSE IN PATRIA

Description

tragedy with happy ending in a prologue and three acts
music by Claudio Monteverdi
poetry by Giacomo Badoaro
Critical edition by Bernardo Ticci – BTE – Bernardo Ticci editions, 2021
Prima rappresentazione
Teatro Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venezia, 1640

Ulisse Mauro Borgioni
Telemaco  Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani
Penelope Delphine Galou
Iro  Bruno Taddia
Il Tempo/Antinoo  Roberto Lorenzi
Giunone   Raffaella Milanesi
La Fortuna  Vittoria Magnarello
Giove Gianluca Margheri
Nettuno  Federico Domenico Eraldo Sacchi
Minerva  Giuseppina Bridelli
Amore  Paola Valentina Molinari
Anfinomo Francisco Fernandez Rueda
Pisandro Enrico Torre
Melanto/L’humana Fragilità Gaia Petrone
Eurimaco  Alessio Tosi
Eumete  Luigi Morassi
Ericlea  Anna Bessi

concert master and conductor
Ottavio Dantone

direction
Luigi De Angelis

Costumi e drammaturgia
Chiara Lagani
Assistente regia
Andrea Argentieri

Project by
Fanny & Alexander

Orchestra
ACCADEMIA BIZANTINA

new production by FONDAZIONE TEATRO A. PONCHIELLI
Absent since 2004 Il Ritorno di Ulisse in Patria is represented again in occasion of “Monteverdi’s Festival” official opening. The musical direction is managed by the charismatic Ottavio Dantone and his Accademia Bizantina, who had already been main character in  2004 edition.

The innovative production will be headed by Luigi De Angelis, one of the most appreciated film-makers in the contemporary theatre, already well known to Ponchielli audience for an original staging, in 2019, of Orfeo nel Metrò, which was very successful.