Handel: Giulio Cesare

Director Peter Sellars helms this provocative adaptation of George Frideric Handel's opera "Giulio Cesare," sung in the original Italian by soprano Susan Larson (who plays Cleopatra) and countertenor Jeffrey Gall (in the role of Julius Caesar) but set in a very different locale: a futuristic Middle East. Sellars personally wrote the English subtitles included in this version to match the tone he intended for his vision.

Cast

Jeffrey Gall Julius Cäsar Herman Hildebrand Curio

Mary Westbrook-Geha Cornelia

Lorraine Hunt Sextus Susan Larson Cleopatra

Drew Minter Ptolomäus

James Maddalena Achillas

Cheryl Cobb Nirena

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