Movie

Handel: Giulio Cesare

★ 9/10 · 1 votes 1990 Released

Music

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.

Cast

J Jeffrey Gall Julius Cäsar H Herman Hildebrand Curio M Mary Westbrook-Geha Cornelia Lorraine Hunt Sextus S Susan Larson Cleopatra D Drew Minter Ptolomäus