Episode 5
Donald Macleod visits Venice for this special series. He visits the sites of the world's first two public opera houses, where the composer's late operatic masterpieces premiered.
Donald Macleod visits Venice for this special series on Monteverdi.
He visits the sites of the world's first two public opera houses, where the composer's late operatic masterpieces were first performed.
Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria, Act III (complete).
Guillemette Laurens (Melanto)
Mario Cecchetti (Eurimaco)
Marcello Vargetto (Antinoo)
Fabian Schofrin (Pisandro)
Pablo Pollitzer (Anfinomo)
Gloria Banditelli (Penelope)
Furio Zanasi (Ulisse)
Maria Cristina Kiehr (Minerva)
Ensemble Elyma
Gabriel Garrido (director)
L'Incoronazione di Poppea (excerpts)
Francesco Ellero D'Artegna (Seneca)
Dana Hanchard (Nero)
Sylvia McNair (Poppea)
Constanze Backes (Valletto)
Marinella Pennicchi (Damigella)
English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner (director)
E questa vita un lampo (Selva morale e spirituale)
Cantus Colln
Konrad Junghanel (director).
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- Fri 17 Oct 200812:00BBC Radio 3
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