Giulio Cesare in Egitto

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.

Um Julius Cäsar im Machtkampf mit seiner Schwester Cleopatra auf seine Seite zu ziehen, schenkt ihm der junge Pharao Ptolemäus den Kopf seines Rivalen Pompejus. Dies erzürnt den bereits in Cleopatra vernarrten Cäsar. Pompejus' Gattin Cornelia sinnt auf Rache, während Ptolemäus Cleopatra entführt...

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TheTVDB.com Movie ID 206822
Status Released
Released United States of America January 1, 1990
Runtime 237 minutes
Genres Drama History Musical
Original Country Germany
Original Language Italian
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Jeffrey Gall
as Giulio Cesare
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Herman Hildebrand
as Curio
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Mary Westbrook-Geha
as Cornelia
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Lorraine Hunt Lieberson
as Sesto
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James Maddalena
as Achillas
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Susan Larson
as Cleopatra
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Cheryl Cobb
as Nirena
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Drew Minter
as Tolomeo
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Nicola Francesco Haym

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Peter Sellars

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Rainer Mockert
Eberhart Schelle

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Gerhard Janda
Elaine Spatz-Rabinowitz
Werner Langer

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