The Return of Ulysses

...Roundhouse, Chalk Farm

...The Royal Opera returns to the Roundhouse with Monteverdi’s great late work, in a new production directed by John Fulljames starring Christine Rice and Roderick Williams, sung in English.

...'Hyemi Shin’s staging has been inspired by the shape of the auditorium: the action unfolds on a revolving circular stage, inside which is a concentric pit which revolves very slowly in the opposite direction. In the pit presides Christian Curnyn surrounded by his crack team of continuo players on violin, viola, theorbo, lutes, guitars, harps, harpsichords, an organ and a lirone: all this creates a lovely efflorescence of plucked, bowed, and blown sounds.'
Michael Church, Independent