“Sometimes everything comes right in the theatre…. There are multiple virtuoso vocal moments in Monteverdi’s score too, not least from the now veteran Diana Montague in the role of the messenger who brings the news of Eurydice’s death, and is so devastated that she retreats from the world to live in a cave. Frazer Scott provides a tenebrously dark-toned Charon, accompanied by the wonderfully filthy sounding reed regal organ.”
Praise for Monteverdi’s Orfeo (Caronte)
Garsington Opera
dir. John Caird, cond. Laurence Cummings
Martin Kettle for the Guardian