Giulio Cesare

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Opéra national de Paris: Palais Garnier Paris, Île-de-France, 75009, France

Dates/times in Paris time zone

Programme

Giulio Cesare in Egitto, (Julius Caesar in Egypt) HWV 17

Performers

Opéra national de Paris
Emmanuelle Haïm	Conductor
Laurent Pelly	Director
Orchestre et chœur du Concert d'Astrée
Lawrence Zazzo	Mezzo-soprano	Giulio Cesare
Varduhi Abrahamyan	Mezzo-soprano	Cornelia
Karine Deshayes	Mezzo-soprano	Sesto
Sandrine Piau	Soprano	Cleopatra
Christophe Dumaux	Countertenor	Tolomeo
Paul Gay	Bass	Achilla
Dominique Visse	Countertenor	Nireno
Jean-Gabriel Saint-Martin	Bass	Curio

Never had his melodic genius been more effulgent: the score contains some of his brightest jewels, like Cleopatra's arias. Jane Archibald, Karine Deshayes and Laurence Zazzo are the heroes of this vocal festivity.Performed in Italian.

Reviews of Giulio Cesare in Egitto, (Julius Caesar in Egypt) HWV 17 directed by Laurent Pelly

***11

New National Theatre, Tokyo: Opera House, October 2022

****1

Teatro Regio di Torino, Turin, November 2014

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Sandra Bowdler, 23rd February

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Vesna Gerintes, 23rd May

Of the seventeen operas Handel wrote to star the Italian castrato Senesino, Giulio Cesare in Egitto is the most popular, and the one performed most often. It is a dramma per musica filled with ironic hints, and based on power and sex intrigues in ancient Rome. The 38-year-old Handel wrote it in England when his imported Italian-style operas started to fall out of favour.

***11