Director Peter Sellars helms this provocative adaptation of George Frideric Handel's opera "Giulio Cesare," sung in the original Italian by soprano Susan Larson (who plays Cleopatra) and countertenor Jeffrey Gall (in the role of Julius Caesar) but set in a very different locale: a futuristic Middle East. Sellars personally wrote the English subtitles included in this version to match the tone he intended for his vision.

Cast

Lorraine Hunt

Sextus

James Maddalena

Achillas

Jeffrey Gall

Julius Cäsar

Herman Hildebrand

Curio

Mary Westbrook-Geha

Cornelia

Susan Larson

Cleopatra

Drew Minter

Ptolomäus

Cheryl Cobb

Nirena