Giulio Cesare in Egitto

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Opera

Dramma per musica by George Frideric Handel
In Italian with German surtitles

Caesar and Cleopatra: the affair of the Egyptian ruler and the Roman general has fired the imagination for centuries. It helped George Frideric Handel to one of his greatest successes. It was all supposed to begin with a reconciliation: After a surprise victory over Pompeo's troops, Cesare has pursued his adversary all the way to Egypt. Pompeo's wife Cornelia and their son Sesto recognize their defeat and ask for mercy for the hunted man. Cesare wants to grant them, but it is already too late. The scheming Egyptian king Tolomeo sees his hour has come to win Cesare over to his side in the power struggle with his own sister Cleopatra. He gives the Roman a gift, but it has no effect at all... Cesare falls in love with Cleopatra and eventually crowns her sole queen of Egypt. Nicola Francesco Haym's libretto unfolds a scene with the greatest dramatic impact, showing the characters as people who act politically and at the same time love, suffer and hope. Handel was inspired by the material to write music of almost inexhaustible richness of color and unheard-of virtuosity. This content has been machine translated.