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Giulio Cesare in Egitto
Giulio Cesare in Egitto

Giulio Cesare in Egitto

2022

N/R

Categories:

  • Music
  • Drama

Overview:

Triumphantly premiered in 1724 at the King's Theatre in London, George Frideric Handel's Giulio Cesare in Egitto masterfully combines human emotions: Triumph with sorrow, despair with happiness and love with profound melancholy in the face of the transience of all earthly life. Star director Keith Warner creates a production that imaginatively blends silent film and baroque opera, delightfully echoing Mankiewicz's legendary Cleopatra with Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison and Richard Burton. An excellent cast of singers is led by two of the world's leading countertenors: Bejun Mehta and Christophe Dumaux. Louise Alder shines as the seductive Cleopatra. Patricia Bardon, Simon Bailey and Jake Arditti are further highlights in this extraordinary group of singers, while Ivor Bolton provides the appropriate soundtrack on the podium of the Concentus Musicus Wien.

Tiziano Mancini

Director

Cast:

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  • Bejun Mehta

    Bejun Mehta

    Giulio Cesare
  • Louise Alder

    Louise Alder

    Cleopatra
  • Christophe Dumaux

    Christophe Dumaux

    Tolomeo
  • Patricia Bardon

    Patricia Bardon

    Cornelia
  • Jake Arditti

    Jake Arditti

    Sesto
  • Simon Bailey

    Simon Bailey

    Achilla