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Handel: Julius Caesar

SKU: 10277

Price:
AU $36.63

Label: Decca Cat. No.: 071 4089 Medium: DVD No. Discs: 2

Peter Sellars's daring and novel adaptation of Handel's opera Giulio Cesare previously released on Laser Disc and VHS is now available on DVD!

Though sung in the original Italian, Giulio Cesare is relocated in the unspecified future in the Middle East. Cesare is the unquestioned leader of a major world power who visits the Empire's number one global trouble spot. The story unfolds in a major international hotel still under construction but already victim of terrorist bombs. Ptolemy is a 14-year-old 'self styled local potentate' and Cleopatra his beautiful and spoiled elder sister.

Sellars's imaginative restaging of the opera proves to be still politically relevant today.

Included in this DVD are the English subtitles supplied by director Peter Sellars himself, specifically created to match and enhance his personal vision of this opera.

Sellars's Giulio Cesare is performed uncut. The result is an extravaganza more than four hours long!

Peter Sellars is one of the leading theatre, opera, and television directors in the world today, having directed more than one hundred productions, large and small, across America and internationally. His contemporary visions of Mozart's operas Cosi fan tutte, Le nozze di Figaro, and Don Giovanni, are already available on DVD.

Countertenor Jeffrey Gall (Giulio Cesare), one of America's most prominent countertenors, leads a strong cast including the late Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (Sesto) who also appears on Peter Sellars's DVD of Mozart's Don Giovanni (as Donna Elvira). Also featured are baritone James Maddalena (Achilla) who first gained international recognition for his notable portrayal of Richard Nixon in the world premiere of John Adams's Nixon in China and Drew Minter (Tolomeo) internationally acclaimed for his performances and recordings of the music of Handel.

For its first release on DVD, Giulio Cesare features both a LPCM Stereo soundtrack and a new DTS 5.1 Surround soundtrack.

Artists:

Jeffrey Gall, Susan Larson, Mary Westbrook-Geha, Lorraine Hunt, James Maddalena, Drew Minter, Cheryl Cobb, Herman Hildebrand.

Composers:

Handel.

Conductors:

James Levine.

Orchestras:

Sachsische Staatskapelle Dresden.

Tracks:

GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL (1685-1759) Giulio Cesare in Egitto
Jeffrey Gall		Giulio Cesare
Susan Larson		Cleopatra
Mary Westbrook-Geha		Cornelia
Lorraine Hunt		Sesto
James Maddalena		Achilla
Drew Minter		Tolomeo
Cheryl Cobb		Nirena
Herman Hildebrand		Curio