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Giulio Cesare, ACT I After defeating Pompeo's forces, Giulio Cesare's political rival and ex-son-in-law, Cesare and his troops settle victoriously on the banks of the Nile river. Pompeo's second wife, Cornelia, begs Cesare to have mercy upon her husband.Misc. Notes These file(s) are part of the Werner Icking Music Collection.No.13 in Handel’s Sixty Overtures from all his Operas and Oratorios Set for the Harpsichord or Organ: Purchase.If opera libretti from around this time had often been as good as this one is, Gluck would hardly have needed his programme of reform. Considering what magic in the right sense Handel was able to produce for a book full of magic in the wrong sense like Rinaldo, the omens were good for Giulio Cesare.
Handel s popular opera, Giulio Cesare, is named after the great Roman emperor, but its most memorable character is Cleopatra. In this production by Laurent Pelly from Paris splendid Palais Garnier, the role of the Egyptian queen is assumed for the first time by Natalie Dessay, described by the Telegraph as a supreme vocal enchantress.Giulio Cesare is the most popular of Handel's forty operas today, not because the music is better than all the rest (he composed many scores as fine), but because the action, besides concerning itself with persons familiar to modern audiences, is exceptionally clear.The characters undergo their many transformations before our eyes and ears and for comprehensible reasons — Cesare from.
Natalie Dessay (Artist) Le Concert d'Astree (Artist) Emmanuelle Haim (Artist) Laurent Pelly (Artist) Giulio Cesare, the most popular of Handel s operas, is named after the great Roman emperor, but its most memorable character is Cleopatra. In this production by Laurent Pelly from Paris splendid Palais Garnier, the role of the Egyptian queen is.
