Tags: Classical Music Composition.
Ulysses Awakes (after Monteverdi) is a musical composition for solo viola and strings by English composer John Woolrich. It is a creative transcription of Ulysses’ first aria in act 1 scene 7 of Claudio Monteverdi’s opera Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria. Ulysses has been washed up on the coast of Ithaca his homeland.