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

J

Jeffrey Gall

Julius Cäsar

H

Herman Hildebrand

Curio

M

Mary Westbrook-Geha

Cornelia

Lorraine Hunt

Sextus

S

Susan Larson

Cleopatra

D

Drew Minter

Ptolomäus

James Maddalena

Achillas

C

Cheryl Cobb

Nirena