Giulio Cesare - Recordings

Recordings

This list is incomplete.

• 1990: The American director Peter Sellars directed Giulio Cesare as a studio production filmed at DEFA-Studio. The video recording is based on a production originally staged at the 1987 Pepsico SummerFare held at SUNY Purchase and later presented at the Opera Company of Boston (1987), Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels (1988), and Le Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers, Paris (1990). It was conducted by his regular musical collaborator Craig Smith. The production was updated to the unspecified future and set in the Middle East. It features the counter-tenor Jeffrey Gall as Cesare, Susan Larson as Cleopatra and Lorraine Hunt-Lieberson as Sesto. It has been issued on DVD by Decca.
• 1991: Conducted by René Jacobs on Harmonia Mundi, this features Jennifer Larmore.
• 2002: Conducted by Marc Minkowski, this production had Magdalena Kožená in the role of Cleopatra.
• 2005 (March): Three recordings were made at the Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen. They became a DVD, published by Harmonia Mundi and released in the fall of 2007. The performance was directed by Francisco Negrin. Lars Ulrik Mortensen conducts Concerto Copenhagen and the vocal performers include German counter-tenor Andreas Scholl in the title role and Inger Dam-Jensen as Cleopatra.
• 2005: The Glyndebourne Festival has published its 2005 summer production (since revived in 2009), directed by David McVicar and conducted by William Christie, on an Opus Arte DVD, with Sarah Connolly in the role of Cesare and Danielle de Niese in the role of Cleopatra. The production won the 2006 "South Bank Show" Award for Opera. The period has been moved to British colonial times in the first half of the 20th century and the staging contains elements from Bollywood films.
• 2010: recording conducted by George Petrou on Dabringhaus und Grimm, featuring Kristina Hammarström as Cesare and Emanuela Galli as Cleopatra. Other singers include Mary-Ellen Nesi (Sesto), Irini Karaianni (Cornelia) and Romina Basso (Tolomeo).