Händel - Giulio Cesare [2 DVDs] - Universal/Music/DVD

"Interpreteure"
Giulio Cesare - Jeffrey Gall
Cleopatra - Susan Larson
Cornelia - Mary Westbrook-Geha
Sesto - Lorraine Hunt
Achilla - James Maddalena
Tolomeo - Drew Minter
Nirena - Cheryl Cobb
Curio - Herman Hildebrand

Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden
Conductor: Craig Smith

"Giulio Cesare"
Though sung in the original Italian, Handel's opera is relocated by American director Peter Sellars to the oil-rich Middle East in the unspecified future. Julius Caesar is the unquestioned leader of a major world power, on a visit to the number-one global trouble spot. The drama unfolds in an exclusive international hotel, still under construction but already suffering form terrorist attacks. There he confronts Ptolemy, a teenaged self-styled local potentate, and fatefully encounters Cleopatra, Ptolemy's beautiful yet spoilt elder sister.