Giulio Cesare in Egitto HWV 17
Opera by G. F. Händel // Musical direction: Rubén Dubrovsky // Production: Damiano Michieletto // Choreography: Thomas Wilhelm // Stage: Paolo Fantin // Costumes: Agostino Cavalca // Lighting: Alessandro Carletti // Soloists: Yuriy Mynenko (Giulio Cesare), Peter Dolinšek (Curio), Ulrike Schneider (Cornelia), Kathrin Göring (Sesto) Olga Jelínkovà (Cleopatra), Rémy Brès (Tolomeo), Franz Xaver Schlecht (Achilla), Nora Steuerwald (Nireno) // Gewandhausorchester Leipzig // In original Italian with German surtitles // A co-production of Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Oper Leipzig, Opéra Orchestre national de Montpellier Occitanie and Théâtre du Capitole Toulouse // Organizer: Oper Leipzig as part of the Handel Festival
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For more than a hundred years, the by far most frequently performed opera by G. F. Handel is Giulio Cesare in Egitto. Its success is thanks first and foremost to its subject, one of the best-known love stories in world history. The celebrated producer Damiano Michieletto, who after the success of his glittering production of The Rake’s Progress, returns to Leipzig Opera with Giulio Cesare in Egitto, has already proved in London, Moscow, Milan and Salzburg that he has a nose for what makes compelling music theatre. And “conductor Rubén Dubrovsky makes Handel’s inexhaustible imagination audible ... Like this, Handel is real fun. (...)” (H. Queren, neue presse, 02/2020). This versatile artist, born into a Polish-Italian family of artists in Buenos Aires, has long been a familiar name to Halle audiences as an interpreter of Handel’s music.