Giulio Cesare (Nationale Opera & Ballet)

Release date
Location
DNO (Amsterdam)
Duration
3:32
Interval
1
Language
Italian
Subtitles
Spanish,
English,
French
Opera
Georg Friedrich Händel
Musical direction
Emmanuelle Haïm
Stage direction
Calixto Bieito

Orchestra: Le Concert d’Astrée

Main pic
Photo credit
© Monika Rittershaus

Main informations

In the midst of the Roman Civil War (49-45 BCE), Giulio Cesare (Julius Caesar) discovers that his rival Pompeo has been cruelly executed by the Egyptian king Tolomeo (Ptolemy). While Pompeo’s widow Cornelia mourns her husband, and his son Sesto vows vengeance, Ptolemy’s sister and wife Cleopatra decides to seduce Caesar... Giulio Cesare in Egitto became Handel's most popular opera thanks to a brilliant and ambitious score in which the following are deployed: his melodic genius, an incredibly rich orchestration and his irresistible sense of theatre. The love story between Caesar and Cleopatra mixed with political intrigue completes the seduction of the audience. Love and politics are precisely the two main themes of this opera according to stage director Calixto Bieito, who gives us a rough and ironic portrayal of characters isolated in an ultramodern world but still subject to primitive emotions.

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Équipe artistique

Opera in three acts (1724)
Music / George Frideric Handel
Libretto / Nicola Francesco Haym

Musical direction and harpsichord / Emmanuelle Haïm
Stage direction / Calixto Bieito
Sets / Rebecca Ringst
Costumes / Ingo Krügler
Lighting design / Michael Bauer
Video / Sarah Derendinger
Dramaturgy / Bettina Auer

Orchestra / Le Concert d’Astrée

Distribution

Giulio Cesare / Christophe Dumaux
Cleopatra / Julie Fuchs
Sesto / Cecilia Molinari
Cornelia / Teresa Iervolino
Tolomeo / Cameron Shahbazi
Achilla / Frederik Bergman
Nireno / Jacob Ingbar
Curio / Georgiy Derbas-Richter

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