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"Music-theatre doesn’t come more visceral than this"
The Independent *****
"John La Bouchardière has transformed the work into a compelling but upsetting piece of theatre… bleak but brilliant. In awe of the performance... One of the most enthralling music-theatre shows in recent years... I don't know what to admire most."
The Times ****
"John La Bouchardière's delicious conceit... Mesmerising… an unforgettable evening"
The Guardian ****
"An extraordinary experiment in performance style. Never more personal, more radical, more harrowing. I cannot urge you strongly enough to find a performance and go."
The Independent on Sunday
"Anyone who has loved and lost cannot fail to be moved by this."
Early Music News
"A moment in the lives of those present that will not easily be forgotten. I have rarely, if ever, seen an audience as rapt, as engaged with music as on that evening."
Early Music
"One of the most dramatic reinterpretations (or reinventions) of early music in recent times. It is surely the closest one can get to being inside Monteverdi's head, or inside the head of anyone who has loved and lost."
Early Music Review
"An extraordinary experience... Nobody could leave the room without believing they had been privy to some sort of miracle of human endeavour. It was witchcraft."
Griff Rhys Jones The Daily Telegraph
"In touring The Full Monteverdi worldwide, I Fagiolini has taken live performance to new levels of imaginative brilliance."
BBC Music Magazine - coverage of RPS Awards
"More than a modern-dress performance of an opera ever could, the
concept posited Monteverdi as our contemporary. The performers for The
Full Monteverdi weren't simply dressed as we were (eerily so,
anticipating the exact measure of casualness of the Kaplan crowd) —
they were in our very midst. It was a viscerally effective way of
telling us that the emotions Monteverdi described are our emotions; his world is our world."
Opera News
"The Full Monteverdi helps the audience get closer to the original
heat these madrigals gave off. The language may be foreign and the
idiom centuries old, but this musical theater works like a mirror, with
love and its discords hitting close to home."
Star Ledger, New Jersey
"Theatrical cunning... brilliantly atuned to its musical material."
New York Sun
"Inventively dramatised... listeners are surrounded by the individual strands of Monteverdi’s
polyphony. And with a performance this good, that’s a spectacular place
to be."
New York Times
"A tour de force"
Opera Now
"A sensational success"
Choir & Organ
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