Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria - Schedule, Program & Tickets

Text by Giacomo Badoaro
Opera in a prologue and three acts


Musical direction
Pablo Heras-Casado

Staging
Jossi Wieler
Sergio Morabito

Stage & Costumes
Anna Viebrock

Co-set designer
Torsten Köpf

Video
Tobias Dusche

Ulisse
Georg Nigl

Penelope
Kate Lindsey

Telemaco
Josh Lovell

Eurimaco / Anfinomo
Hiroshi Amako

Nettuno / Antinoo / Il Tempo
Andrea Mastroni

Iro / L'umana fragilità 2
Jörg Schneider

Ericlea / L'umana fragilità 1
Helene Schneiderman


Contents

With Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria, the Vienna State Opera completes the Monteverdi cycle that it opened in the past two seasons with L'incoronazione di Poppea and La favola di Orfeo. The relationship between the Ritorno and Vienna is particularly close, since the only surviving handwritten score by a copyist was only identified in the second half of the 19th century in the holdings of the former Leopold I bedroom chamber library; since the second half of the 20th century, Monteverdi's authorship has been recognized without a doubt. It was not possible to determine whether the copy of the score was expressly commissioned by the Habsburgs or whether it was purchased in Italy. There is also no indication that this score was used in connection with a performance.



Subject to change.