Handel - Giulio Cesare
Craig Smith conducts the Sachsische Staatskapelle Dresden in a production
directed by Peter Sellars. The opera is relocated to the Middle East in an
unspecified future. Cesare is the unquestioned leader of a major world
power who visits the Empire's number one global trouble spot. The story
unfolds in a major international hotel still under construction but already
victim to terrorist bombs. Ptolemy is a 14-year-old 'self styled local
potentate' and Cleopatra his beautiful and spoiled elder sister.