Lend me your ears: Battistelli's Julius Caesar charms Rome

By Elena Luporini, 25 November 2021

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“an intimate, private investigation on morality and guilt”

Reviewed at Teatro Costanzi, Teatro dell'Opera, Rome on 23 November 2021

Battistelli, Julius Caesar

Teatro dell'Opera di Roma

Daniele Gatti, Conductor

Robert Carsen, Director, Lighting Designer

Radu Boruzescu, Set Designer

Luis F Carvalho, Costume Designer

Peter van Praet, Lighting Designer

Clive Bayley, Julius Caesar

Ruxandra Donose, Calpurnia

Michael J. Scott, Casca

Julian Hubbard, Cassius

Christopher Lemmings, Cinna

Timothy Robinson, Clitus, Marullus

Hugo Hymas, Lucius

Christopher Gillett, Soothsayer

Dominic Sedgwick, Antony

Elliot Madore, Brutus

Allen Boxer, Flavius, Messala, Metellus

Scott Wilde, Dardanus, Decius

Coro del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma

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Elena Luporini

After completing their Master's degree in Musicology in Rome, Elena has now moved to Berlin to dedicate themselves to more things musical. With a publication on Béla Bartók and a seminar at the Humboldt-Universität underway, their interests mostly veer toward 20th-century opera, with some forays into queer musicology. Some of their latest undertakings also include oboe lessons, stencil-making and tea-making.

Lend me your ears: world premiere of Giorgio Battistelli's Julius Caesar charms Rome