Monteverdi's Flying Circus | Opera review

Bridge House, WarwickOf all the great composers, Monteverdi is perhaps the most elusive. There's no popular caricature of the man, as there is of Bach, Mozart or Beethoven. That is part of the justification for this production, woven around the composer's last years by the writer Kit Hesketh-Harvey, director Anna Tolputt and Christopher Monks and his Armonico Consort.That lack of a general perception also allows Monteverdi to be portrayed in a way that might seem crass with a more familiar histo...

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