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LOCATION:Deutsche Oper Berlin\, Berlin
SUMMARY:Giulio Cesare in Egitto
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DESCRIPTION:With its immense richness of musical colour\, this is arguably 
 Handel's most famous opera. The fact that the plot draws on a well-known l
 ove story – the liaison between Julius Caesar and Cleopatra\, overshadow
 ed by intrigue and civil war – was and is conducive to its success. We p
 resent this work in the masterful staging by David McVicar... Conductor: S
 tefano Montanari\; Director: David McVicar\; With\, among others\, Vasilis
 a Berzhanskaya\, Elena Tsallagova\, Clémentine Margaine / Stephanie Wake-
 Edwards\nMoral outrage one moment\, coquettish expediency the next. The in
 trigues of the powerful interwoven with the desperation of hapless refugee
 s. When it comes to the gamut of human emotion and modes of behaviour\, fe
 w operas of the baroque period can touch Handel’s GIULIO CESARE IN EGITT
 O\, which premiered in London in 1724. This tale of the love affair betwee
 n the ageing Roman general Julius Caesar and the young pharaoh Cleopatra w
 as one of Handel’s greatest triumphs within his lifetime and remains his
  most performed opera. That is not just down to the base material – one 
 of the best-known historically attested love stories\, which has been give
 n treatments ranging from Shakespeare to Liz Taylor and Richard Burton and
  “Asterix und Cleopatra” – but also to a sophisticated libretto that
  provided the inspiration for a string of great arias and memorable charac
 ter studies\, for aside from the Roman-Egyptian pairing of Caesar and Cleo
 patra GIULIO CESARE IN EGITTO features another pair who are busy not with 
 flirting but with the serious business of staying alive: Cornelia\, the wi
 dow of Pompeius\, a murdered rival of Caesar\, and her son Sesto. Both hav
 e sought refuge in Egypt but have become pawns in the scheming between Cle
 opatra and her brother Tolomeo.\n\nThe Deutsche Oper Berlin presents GIULI
 O CESARE IN EGITTO in the acclaimed production by Scottish director David 
 McVicar\, which was developed at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera House and
  also performed at the New York Metropolitan Opera. McVicar employs baroqu
 e-style soffit curtains to create a variety of backdrops for the acting ou
 t of sentiments ranging from tragedy to Cleopatra’s humour and charm as 
 she goes to work on the visiting strong man from Rome.\n\nSpotlightIleana 
 Cotrubas\, the renowned Romanian soprano\, was right to follow her hunch a
 nd take her young North Ossetian fach colleague Elena Tsallagova under her
  wing\, once she was convinced of her talent. It was a leg-up that led to 
 Tsallagova debuting at the Opéra de Paris and becoming a member of the en
 semble of the Deutsche Oper Berlin following a period at Munich. In Berlin
  she has not only appeared in a wide repertoire of works ranging from Moza
 rt to Zemlinsky via Verdi and Meyerbeer over the last 15 years but also de
 monstrated an almost peerless versatility as an operatic thespian\, most r
 ecently as Zdenko/Zdenka in Tobias Kratzer’s celebrated staging of ARABE
 LLA. She now tackles a baroque work\, showing us another facet of her skil
 l set as Handel’s Cleopatra.
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