Giulio Cesare in Egitto
Act 1
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Giulio Cesare in Egitto
Act 1
Yuriy Mynenko
Countertenor – Giulio Cesare
Sophie Junker
Soprano – Cleopatra
Nicholas Tamagna
Countertenor – Tolomeo
Francesca Ascioti
Contralto – Cornelia
Katie Coventry
Mezzo-sopran – Sesto Pompeo
Riccardo Novaro
Baritone – Achilla
Artur Janda
Bass-Baritone – Curio
Rafał Tomkiewicz
Countertenor – Nireno
FestspielOrchester Göttingen
George Petrou
Director and Conductor
Paris Mexis
Stage and costume designer
Stella Kaltsou
Lightning designer
As understandable as it is bold: such is also the plan that Cleopatra devises to realize her claim to the Egyptian throne which her brother Tolomeo occupies. For this reason, she seduces Caesar into helping her – with sweeping success and lasting consequences for both of them: cunning turns into lust and passion. The Roman ruler also falls in love with her, but finds himself confronted with a bloodthirsty revenge plot. Cornelia and Sesto, wife and son of his slain enemy Pompeo, hold him responsible for the beheading of the rogue commander and plot to take his life ...
100 years after Oskar Hagen rediscovered and resurrected the masterpiece, it is returning in a co-production with the Nederlandse Reisopera to the place where the Handel renaissance in Germany began in the 1920s.
