Handel: Giulio Cesare

Handel: Giulio Cesare

Music | Jan. 1, 1990

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.

Handel: Giulio Cesare

Music | Jan. 1, 1990

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.
Producers
Original title Handel: Giulio Cesare
Directors Peter Sellars
Writers

Cast

Jeffrey Gall

as Julius Cäsar

Mary Westbrook-Geha

as Cornelia

Lorraine Hunt

as Sextus

Susan Larson

as Cleopatra

Drew Minter

as Ptolomäus

James Maddalena

as Achillas

Cheryl Cobb

as Nirena