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2024 / AROP evening / Opera
30 Jan.

Giulio Cesare

    Palais Garnier

    19h

    Duration
    4h15

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  • 1st part
    19h00
  • Intermission cocktail
    20h25
  • 2nd part
    20h50
  • Intermission cocktail
    21h50
  • 3rd part
    22h10
  • End of the performance
    23h15

A love story between two illustrious figures of antiquity - Caesar and Cleopatra - coupled with power struggles in Egypt: these ingredients alone could explain the immediate success of Giulio Cesare when it premiered in 1724 at the Haymarket Theatre in London. But if it became Handel's most popular opera, it was above all thanks to its sumptuous orchestration and prodigious musical inventiveness. Each character is portrayed with great psychological finesse, especially Cleopatra, one of the history of music's finest female portraits. Director Laurent Pelly sets the action in the reserves of a museum, in the department of Egyptian antiquities, resulting in delightful era-shifts between characters in togas and busy maintenance workers. A playful way of breaking the codes of the opera seria, which was precisely Handel's objective.

Giulio Cesare

Jules César

  • Music

    Georg Friedrich Haendel
    (1685 - 1759)

  • Conductor
    Harry Bicket
  • Chorus master
    Gaël Darchen

  • Libretto

    Nicola Francesco Haym

  • Director

    Laurent Pelly

  • Costume design

    Laurent Pelly

  • Set design

    Chantal Thomas

  • Lighting design

    Joël Adam

  • Dramaturgy

    Agathe Mélinand

Cast

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Gaëlle
Arquez

Giulio Cesare

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Lisette
Oropesa

Cleopatra

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Emily
D'Angelo

Sesto

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Wiebke
Lehmkuhl

Cornelia

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Iestyn
Davies

Tolomeo

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Luca
Pisaroni

Achilla

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Rémy
Brès

Nireno

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Adrien
Mathonat

Curio

The Paris Opera Orchestra and the Unikanti Chorus