Epiphany: Lully is fun.
105. Alceste (Lully)
104. L’incoronazione di Poppea (Monteverdi)
Nero was the first historical figure to appear in an opera. He would probably have been delighted. He was, after all, an opera singer himself.
103. Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria (Monteverdi)
Il ritorno d'Ulisse is rather like a Shakespearean Romance: a part-melancholic, part-comic story of gods, castaways, shipwrecks, transformations, perilous voyages, and disguises, which ends, after many years, with a family reunited.
