Volume 49, Number 10 · June 13, 2002
The Full Monte
By Joseph Kerman
The Monteverdi Cycle at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, April 7–27, 2002:
Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria
conducted by William Christie, directed by Adrian Noble
Les Arts Florissants and the Aix-en-Provence European Academy of Music
L'incoronazione di Poppea
conducted by Christophe Rousset, directed by Pierre Audi
Dutch National Opera and Les Talens Lyriques
Orfeo
conducted by Jane Glover, directed by Diane Paulus
Chicago Opera Theater and Newberry Consort
It was a brilliant idea, and must have required a managerial tour de force, for the Brooklyn Academy of Music to bring together the three surviving operas of Claudio Monteverdi in productions from Amsterdam, Aix-en-Provence, and Chicago, dating from 1993, 2000, and 2001 respectively. Attending all three in a row was a wonderful experience, vertiginous even for the seasoned opera-goer, and would have been so even if the three productions had not been so very different.
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