The last major event of the 2024 Aix-en-Provence Festival, this Return of Ulysses was highly anticipated because it was entrusted to Pierre Audi and Leonardo García Alarcón. The new production of Monteverdi’s work kept all its promises, ideally served by the talent of each of the artist-craftsmen brought together for the occasion.
Psychology : keyword for a staging. At the heart of the subject presented in the show’s program, Pierre Audi never ceases to defend a psychological vision of the drama that allows to give meaning to a work that could be nothing more than a long musical narration and flesh to each of its characters, from the most mortal to the most divine. Above all, do not expect marble columns, triremes or triremes in the port and on the waves, blue skies and fine sandy beaches: exit the fake. Pierre Audi and his team have chosen simplicity in good taste, with an extraordinary work on the lighting by Urs Schönebaum that gives a dreamlike dimension to the show. Sobriety and elegance, also, for the costumes by Wojciech Dziedzic, pastel blue for the gods, a moiré velvet dress in the golden colors of autumn for Penelope reinforcing the presence and beauty of the character.