The Return of Ulysses, Song of My Father at Source

The Return of Ulysses, Song of My Father

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1835 14th Street, NW Washington

Monteverdi's second opera sets the story of Trojan War hero Ulysses' traumatic homecoming from the epic The Odyssey. IN Series will bring this rarely heard masterpiece to life in an expansive new work that re-tells the story through the lens of the Vietnam war. Incorporating Southeast Asian contemporary dance, interviews with veterans, and newly commissioned arrangements of popular Vietnam era songs in the style of Monteverdi madrigals, the production features an all-star cast led by Derek Chester and Elizabeth Mondragon.

Thru - May 27, 2024

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Mondays: 2:00pm

Fridays: 7:00pm

Saturdays: 7:00pm

Sundays: 2:00pm

Show Type: Performance Art

Box Office: 202-315-1305

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DC Theater Arts - Highly Recommended

"...Claudio Monteverdi composed his opera The Return of Ulysses, based on the latter portions of Homer's Odyssey, in 1640. IN Series' adaptation of this material is radical enough to be considered a new work. Its setting is America's Vietnam War, melding Monteverdi's music with popular and protest songs of the period and focusing on the sometimes fraught repatriation of veterans of that conflict to "the world," as those of us who served in the military in those times often referred to the America we imagined we were coming home to."

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- Bob Ashby

The Return of Ulysses, Song of My Father at Source