New production
Giulio Cesare
Georg Friedrich Haendel
credits Harry Gruyaert
Opera in three acts (1724)
Music by George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Libretto by NICOLA FRANCESCO HAYM after GIACOMO FRANCESCO BUSSANI
Performed in Italian
Never was Handel's melodic genius more effulgent: the score contains some of his brightest jewels, like Cleopatra's arias, now seductive, now plaintive. Emmanuelle Haïm and Laurent Pelly conduct this new production, in which Natalie Dessay sings her first Cleopatra.
| Emmanuelle Haïm | Conductor |
| Laurent Pelly | Stage director and costumes |
| Chantal Thomas | Sets |
| Joël Adam | Lighting |
| Agathe Mélinand | Dramaturgy and collaboration with staging |
| Patrick Marie Aubert | Chorus master |
Lawrence Zazzo Giulio Cesare
Varduhi Abrahamyan Cornelia
Isabel Leonard Sesto
Natalie Dessay (17, 20, 23, 27, 29 Janv., 1er, 4, 7 Févr.) / Jane Archibald (10, 12, 14, 17 Févr.) Cleopatra
Christophe Dumaux Tolomeo
Nathan Berg Achilla
Dominique Visse Nireno
Aimery Lefèvre Curio
Orchestre du Concert d'Astrée and Paris Opera Chorus
