Ulysses, faced with the sight of his happy and forgetful companions on the island of the Lotophagi, reacts violently: he forcibly herds them onto the ship and compels them to resume their journey. “Let no one ever forget the past, their homeland and their native tongue!” “Reading this dazzling episode years ago filled me with such enthusiasm that I fell in love with Ulysses to the point of wanting to turn him into a musical work,” writes the composer