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The Return of Ulysses

An ENO/Young Vic co-production

The Return of Ulysses

Monteverdi

 

24 March - 9 April 2011

Main House

Show information

★★★★★ 'The singing is exceptional. Every performance is a stand-out performance.'
The Independent

★★★★★
 'Brilliant... heartbreakingly beautiful... Don't miss.'
The Times

'An outstanding ensemble directed by Jonathan Cohen.'
The Guardian

★★★★ 'Powerfully gripping and slickly executed.'
The Daily Telegraph 


THE EPIC LEGEND RE-IMAGINED

ENO and the Young Vic continue their South Bank Show Award-winning partnership with a new production of Monteverdi’s epic work based on the second half of Homer’s Odyssey.

The Return of Ulysses is directed by Benedict Andrews, whose many acclaimed productions include A Streetcar Named Desire at the Schaubuhne Berlin and his spectacular staging of Shakespeare’s The War of the Roses for Sydney Theatre Company.

'Another top-rate collaboration between ENO and the Young Vic. Bravo to both.'
The Observer (ENO/Young Vic's 2010 Elegy for Young Lovers

In the press

The Telegraph on Ruby Hughes making her ENO debut in The Return of Ulysses.

Creative team

Conductor Jonathan Cohen
Direction Benedict Andrews
Set Börkur Jónsson
Costume Alice Babidge
Lighting Jon Clark
Video design Sean Bacon 

Cast

Ulysses Tom Randle
Penelope Pamela Helen Stephen
Telemachus Thomas Hobbs
Eurimachus Thomas Walker
Minerva Ruby Hughes
Melanto Kate Manley

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