Handel's Giulio Cesare at the Salzburg Festival 2025
Christophe Dumaux (Cesare), Olga Kulchynska (Cleopatra), Lucile Richardot (Cornelia) — Dmitri Tcherniakov (stage director), Emmanuelle Haïm (conductor)
Cast
Dmitri Tcherniakov — Stage director
Elena Zaytseva — Costume designer
Gleb Filshtinsky — Lighting
Ran Arthur Braun — Fight director
Program notes
Three hundred years old and as timely as ever, Handel's monumental Giulio Cesare in Egitto (Julius Caesar in Egypt) arrives at the 2025 Salzburg Festival in a new staging by the audacious, award-winning Dmitri Tcherniakov! When Caesar (Christophe Dumaux) comes to Egypt on the hunt for his enemy Pompey, he discovers that the pharaoh Ptolemy (Yuriy Mynenko) has beaten him to the punch, setting Pompey's son Sextus (Federico Fiorio) on a mission for vengeance — all while Ptolemy's sister Cleopatra (Olga Kulchynska) schemes to take the throne for herself, leading her directly into the path of Caesar… This tale of uncompromising rivalries and the corrupting thrall of political power is animated by one of Handel's finest scores, majestic in the hands of expert Baroque ensemble Le Concert d'Astrée under their celebrated founder Emmanuelle Haïm.
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