Handel: Giulio Cesare

Handel: Giulio Cesare 1990 Directed by Peter Sellars

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.

Country USA

Production Country Germany

Language English

Gnere Music

Release Date 1 January 1990

Cast

Jeffrey Gall Julius Cäsar

Herman Hildebrand Curio

Mary Westbrook-Geha Cornelia

Lorraine Hunt Sextus

Susan Larson Cleopatra

Drew Minter Ptolomäus

James Maddalena Achillas

Cheryl Cobb Nirena

Crew

Director

Peter Sellars

Producer

Eberhard Scheele

Executive Producer

Rainer Mockert

Production Design

Gerhard Janda

Set Designer

Elaine Spatz-Rabinowitz