Musical drama based on one of the most gruesome stories in muscial history. Its hero was a madrigalist and composer of church music in the late 16th century, who discovered his young and beautiful wife in bed with her lover and bloody murder followed. The setting is an Easter week service, the music is Gesualdo’s own version of the Holy Week Responses, and the story of court intrigues, betrayals, and marriages is told in flashbacks. Peter Eyre Elays the prince, Francesca Gonshaw and iza Flanagan his two wives, George Camiller and Michael Vivian the nobles whose illicit designs arouse his suspicion. Colin Nears is the writer and director, Roger Norrington directs the music with the Schutz Consort and the Jaye Consort of Viols