This is from a Live Streaming of Monteverdi’s Il ritorno di Ulisse in patria at Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (in Teatro della Pergola) in June 2021.

The video contains 4 clips, and as there are no subtitles here is a short description:
1. “Dormo ancora” (0:00) - After 20 years of being lost at sea following the Trojan War, Ulisse awakens upon a shore after a storm that has wrecked his ship and killed his shipmates (the soldiers, who have been turned to stone by Neptune). Unaware that he has finally reached his homeland of Crete, he laments his fate as the gods look on from above.
2. “O fortunato Ulisse” (4:12) - The goddess Minerva has disguised Ulisse as an old beggar so that he can enter his palace unrecognised in order to kill the three suitors who have been unsuccessfully wooing his wife Penelope.
3. “Questa mia destra umile…Alle morti” (5:42) - With Minerva’s help, Ulisse kills the three suitors.
4. “Sospirato mio sole” (8:15) - Ulisse is finally reunited with Penelope, and they profess their unending love for one another.

Conductor………Ottavio Dantone
Director………….Robert Carsen
Orchestra……….Accademia Bizantina
Ulisse……………Charles Workman
Penelope………..Delphine Galou
Minerva………….Arianna Vendittelli
Antinoo………….Andrea Patucelli
Anfinomo………..Pierre-Antoine Chaumien
Pisandro…….…..James Hall

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