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MET Opera: Giulio Cesare

                GENRE: 
                Opera                                                                                               
             
             RATING:                                                          
             NR
              
             RUNNING TIME:
             4:30      
              
             RELEASE DATE:
             04/27/2013
             
             STARRING:
             Natalie Dessay, Alice Coote, Patricia Bardon, David Daniels                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
             
             DIRECTOR:
             Harry Bicket                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
             
             PRODUCER(S):
             David McVicar                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
             
             WRITER(S):
             George Frideric Handel

MOVIE SYNOPSIS

David McVicar’s second new production of the season is this dynamic staging of Giulio Cesare, a hit at the Glyndebourne Festival in 2005, which incorporates elements of Baroque theater and 19th-century British imperialism to illuminate the opera’s themes of love, war, and empire building. “Giulio Cesare is a kaleidoscope of an opera—a semi-comic, semi-tragic adventure story. You get romance, you get drama, you get moments of political wheeling-and-dealing, complex family relationships—as well as real emotion and tragedy,” McVicar says. “It’s a miracle, and it has enabled me to express everything I feel is important about opera.” David Daniels stars as the title character, opposite Natalie Dessay in her Met role debut as the bewitching Cleopatra, Alice Coote as Sesto, Patricia Bardon as Cornelia, Christophe Dumaux as Tolomeo, and Guido Loconsolo in his Met debut as Achilla.