Handel: Giulio Cesare
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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.
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Jeffrey Gall
Julius Cäsar
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Herman Hildebrand
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Peter Sellars
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Rainer Mockert
Gerhard Janda
Nicola Francesco Haym
Mary Westbrook-Geha
Cornelia
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Eberhart Schelle
Elaine Spatz-Rabinowitz
Lorraine Hunt
Sextus
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Werner Langer
Susan Larson
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Peter Sellars Director · Gerhard Janda Production designer
United States release January 1, 1990 · Produced in Germany
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Germany
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Original language
English
Release dates
United States · January 1, 1990
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