The Full Monteverdi strips bare one of the great collections of Renaissance music and transforms it into an intensely moving drama for our times. Combining poignant poetry and agonising harmonies with the raw realities of modern life, the film draws viewers into its emotional journey and weaves together multiple narratives to create an avant-garde structure from the very polyphony that inspired it, bridging the distances of time, language and style to make Monteverdi our contemporary.

The film was produced by a consortium of European broadcasters and has since been televised in more than a dozen territories. It went on to enjoy an unexpected cinema release, and was released globally on DVD. The Full Monteverdi was received to wild acclaim: Classic FM rated it as the third most important classical music movie ever, behind only Amadeus and The Pianist.