The Opera of Nice pays tribute to Italy with an Italian opera by Monteverdi*: The Return of Ulysses to His Homeland°. An opera by Monteverdi, the inventor of opera, to conclude the opera season of the Opera de Nice Cote d’Azur.
With The Return of Ulysses Monteverdi, explores through music a multitude of deeply human themes: destiny, wandering, fidelity, solitude, temptation, freedom…
The piece begins on the morning Ulysses lands incognito on his island; twenty years have passed since he left Ithaca to participate in the Trojan War.
It is this day, so rich in events, emotions, and surprises, that Monteverdi, as an accomplished man of theater, endeavors to tell us through a libretto that offers the music so many expressive possibilities.
This music speaks to us and thus makes an opera composed almost 400 years ago familiar to all audiences.
