Bending Monteverdi's bow
Fernando Guimarães as Ulisse. All photos: Clive Grainger.Few artifacts are more intriguing than the partial masterpiece.So imagine the tantalizing aura that has long lingered over Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria, the Monteverdi opera whose score disappeared for centuries - and once rediscovered, was found to not quite cover the extant libretto (partly for that reason, some scholars doubted the score was by Mon…