Handel: Giulio Cesare

GPTKB entity

Statements (48)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:opera
gptkbp:basedOn gptkb:Giulio_Cesare_in_Egitto
gptkbp:catalogueNumber gptkb:HWV_17
gptkbp:composer gptkb:George_Frideric_Handel
gptkbp:criticalReception considered one of Handel's greatest operas
gptkbp:duration approximately 3.5 hours
gptkbp:firstPerformed 1724
gptkbp:genre gptkb:opera
gptkbp:historicalName composed during Handel's London period
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Handel: Giulio Cesare
gptkbp:influenced later baroque opera
gptkbp:influencedBy Italian opera seria tradition
gptkbp:language gptkb:Italian
gptkbp:librettist gptkb:Nicola_Francesco_Haym
gptkbp:notableAria gptkb:Va_tacito_e_nascosto
gptkb:Da_tempeste_il_legno_infranto
gptkb:Piangerò_la_sorte_mia
gptkbp:notableConductor gptkb:William_Christie
gptkb:Sir_Charles_Mackerras
gptkb:René_Jacobs
gptkbp:notableDirector gptkb:John_Copley
gptkb:David_McVicar
gptkbp:notableProduction gptkb:Glyndebourne_Festival_Opera
gptkb:English_National_Opera
gptkb:Metropolitan_Opera
gptkbp:notableRecording Beverly Sills, 1967
Dame Janet Baker, 1984
Sarah Connolly, 2006
gptkbp:numberOfActs 3
gptkbp:orchestration gptkb:orchestra
gptkbp:premiereLocation gptkb:King's_Theatre,_London
gptkbp:revival 20th-century baroque revival
gptkbp:role gptkb:Achilla_(bass)
gptkb:Cleopatra_(soprano)
gptkb:Cornelia_(mezzo-soprano)
gptkb:Curio_(bass)
gptkb:Giulio_Cesare_(alto_castrato,_now_countertenor_or_mezzo-soprano)
gptkb:Sesto_(soprano_or_mezzo-soprano)
Nireno (alto or tenor)
Tolomeo (alto castrato, now countertenor or mezzo-soprano)
gptkbp:setting gptkb:Egypt
gptkbp:subject gptkb:Julius_Caesar
gptkb:Cleopatra
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Le_Concert_d'Astrée
gptkb:Glyndebourne_Festival_Opera_recordings
gptkb:Marc_Minkowski
gptkb:Les_Musiciens_du_Louvre
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7