George Frideric Handel: Giulio Cesare (Glyndebourne Festival Opera 2005) [Blu-ray]

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Sarah Connolly, Angelika Kirschschlager, Danielle De Niese, Patricia Bardon, Christopher Maltman, and Christophe Dumaux star in this Glyndebourne productio of the Handel opera conducted by William Christie on 2 discs.There's a chance that purists will be very unhappy with director David McVicar's production of this Baroque masterpiece; there's also an equal chance that they'll be so vastly entertained that all criticisms will be beside the point. Updated to the years before World War I, Caesar's troops are British soldiers come to colonize Egypt, the latter being a place filled with exoticisms in the form of acres of billowing silk, flashy costumes, and full-blown song and dance numbers a la Bollywood (featuring sex-kitten Cleopatra and her minions). It's not only funny/campy, it also makes a certain internal sense. The razzle-dazzle is laid aside for the personal tragedy of Cornelia and Sesto (Patricia Bardon and Angelika Kirchschlager, respectively)--here portrayed as a beaten-down w

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