Le Concert de l'Hostel Dieu et quatre brillants chanteurs ont superbement illustré, sous la direction de Franck-Emmanuel Comte, les liens artistiques unissant les deux rives de la Manche au XVIIe siècle.
Entitled “Monteverdi, Opera and Beyond”, lyric tenor and baroque specialist Paul Agnew devised a 90 minute programme exploring the role of recitative in Monteverdi’s opera and its influence on seventeenth-century English and French operatic music.