Händel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto mit Cecilia Bartoli

Cecilia Bartoli is Cleopatra! In George Frideric Handel's splendid baroque historical drama she seduces Julius Caesar (the fabulous counter Carlo Vistoli). Play turns into seriousness, calculation into real desire. Passion becomes the power of fate.

The love story of the Egyptian queen with the Roman general really happened. Again and again, it struck artistic sparks. Handel's grand opera is one of its most colorful variants. Its characters go through a roller coaster of emotions. The composer spread them out in an abundance of arias: tender, angry, desperate, enticing. Cecilia Bartoli embarks on a journey through all the moods, accompanied by one of the world's best original sound ensembles.