I have re-watched the DVD of this production several times during the COVID-pandemic to keep my spirits up. My poor neighbours must hate it by now as I cannot always resist singing along. Händel's music is captivating and timelessly beautiful. And this production was glorious. I especially loved the mechanical recreation of waves they used in several scenes. This was all pleasantly low-tech.
It is mesmeric I find myself singing along with it all the time! This is one of the best things they have done at GB in years I'd go back over and over again to see it; It is just GB at its very best.
I am transported to to a time when I was a psychiatric resident on ER call in a tertiary care medical center in Chicago -- me, a female 40 years ago. All 5' 4 1/2" inches of me, in very baggy, awful teal scrubs and an oversized white coat going up against all of the male, over 6 feet tall emergency room physicians "fighting" about a known Bipolar patient who in my assessment required ICU care because of evidence of multiple drug ingestion. Believe me, the battles are nothing like the watered down dramas on TV. It is war with terrible consequences. When I see Sarah Connolly in this role, I do not experience her as a female "playing" a male character, but as a female with a strong, authoritative voice and a role involving life and death responsibility. I wish I could personally thank her for her inspiring voice and performance.
The opera is brimming with catchy arias it's all here the fire and brimstone and the gently soothing What a great lump of genius that Handel ( Handael )was! He threatened to throw a soprano out of a window! Nice one Handel,baby she could handle your mood swings any day! Ha Ha!
Funny, this aria was my gateway drug back in 2006 (sung by the amazing Andreas Scholl) and never looked back! Ever since opera, baroque opera above all, became a passion
Interesting, this is the first time I ever liked a performance by a mezzo singing a man's role... and also, the first time I have really liked the Handelian style of opera singing. Brava, Sarah Connolly!!!
Everything about this is great. The design, the choreography, the natural horns, the soloist and not forgetting that brilliant Tray on Head balancing trick! Now, where did I put that sellotape?
Maybe it’s just the lesbian in me but no countertenor is ever going to have the suave and sex appeal in this role that Connolly does, and that it is fantastically sung....that too
Haha. I'm not a lesbian, but I wouldn't mind countertenors becoming a thing of the past much as castratos did and having all these roles now sung by women.
Couldn't agree more, although there are some very fine male interpretations available - singers that is, though no doubt, somewhere, the other. Janet Baker's recording is less flamboyant but equally fine.
Bought DVD and after watching numerous and versions this is the production I come back to time and time again. Danielle De Niese as Cleopatra and Christophe Dumaux as Ptolemy are equally superb. A must for any liver if this opera
Unknown to me until I saw the original at Glyndebourne in 2005. One of the best opera productions ever IMHO and great to show off to people who don’t think that they will like opera. Some comments here about lumbering tempos. When I first saw this I assumed the dance and aria were an allegory for international diplomacy in a time of British colonial expansion. Tempo, playing and singing all seemed to chime with that idea for me - measured, stuffed shirt, iron fist in a velvet glove, passively aggressive, people carefully manoeuvreing around one another, etc. Almost LOL funny for the audience to watch.
Dame Sarah sings this SO well. In modern times, it seems that only countertenors sing the roles written for the castrati. I'm glad that mezzos are still given the chance. Most countertenors don't have the volume of a mezzo and many times it seems that a second or third rate countertenor will be cast over a first rate mezzo.
¡Qué espectáculo poderoso por Sarah Connolly, el reparto, y la Orquesta del Época de la Ilustración, como siempre. Brava, bravísima, muy bien hecho. Muchísimas gracias.
I have listened to many versions of this as this is the bench mark performance. The pace is perfect, Sarah's voice is goosebump inducing and the horn is just sublime with perfect loudness and not a note wrong which is very hard to find in this piece. The play of the horn and the voice is magnificent. I have listened to this hundreds of time but I always wonder why the end is missing.
Wow. That voice works so well. I will be following Sarah Connelly. It's a good era to be in now. I like listening to Stutzmann Mingardo Genaux as well as a raft of wonderful countertenors. Jaroussky Scholl Orlinsky Davies Bertoni. So many colours
Italians invented the art of opera and all serious opera was written in Italian. Works that were not written in Italian were given other names like Singspiel in Germany and musical comedy in Great Britain. That changed in the 19th century when operas could be written in any language.
Been there, seen in 3 days ago, under a huge impression of the Caesar impersonation - very good job, was a great pleasure to watch and listen. Not to mention the other characters phew!
Tbh this is the first time I've seen it, but I guess that since I'm impressed then it all co-worked nicely, all the dances and costumes... also the guy who played Nireno was brilliant!!
I have been listening to a CD bought off eBay for pence and it is so wonderful that it tipped me over into ringing Glyndebourne to see if I could get a couple of tickets to see Giulio Cesare again. Sold out! Aargh! I shall not make the same mistake again, in the meantime I shall pester the box office for returns. If you're going you are in for a treat, so sumptuous is this production, so slick, such confidence.
Remember, MonaRenee, maybe your neighbours love the music by now. Your message made me cry because I'm listening to this and other Italian and Spanish baroque music tonight to help me recover from a 2nd bout of COVID. G. F Handel fue uno de los compositores más impresionantes de todo tiempo, claro. Esta versión es como realeza, más que la versión animada de David Lee, contratenor coreano.
Pieter de Nijs Did you see the Met production where he shows up at the wedding, having been killed earlier, and spends the whole wedding celebration aria just trying to get a waiter to serve him a drink? It’s hilarious.
astonishing. never seen anything like it. i've blundered into a scene, a reality, I've know nothing of. this is opera, I guess? surreal. About Julius Cesar. I was looking for a rendition of a scrap of music I have by Handel labelled simply 'Giulio Cesare'. Around 30 bars or so. In the key of G. Labelled 'Largo'. In 3/4 time. It kinda has the main theme: da dada daaa I'm not going to find it easy to find it amongst a whole opera am I? Anyone got any clues?
@@PMS1950 Alan Partridge - a popular UK broadcaster from the 90s. His career was nearly ruined when he shot a guest on his TV show. He's on the TH-cams
Madame Connolly possiede voce potente e squillante, note scure ed acuti agili e sicuri; ma l'allestimento scenico contrasta fortemente con Giulio Cesare... non si riesce a comprendere la mania di questi registi!
th-cam.com/video/bj3GqIqXKus/w-d-xo.html From a wonderful and first class production. Gaelle ARQUEZ as Giulio Cesare, Carlo VISTOLI as Tolomeo and also Sabine DEVIEILHE as Cleopatra and Lucile RICHARDOT as Cornelia. One of the most beautiful version of this Handel's masterpiece.
Well.... given that this is an abridged version my comment is going to be hazardous. Great directing idea making the characters dance, nice costumes but such a flat vocal and orchestral performance! Slow pace, solo horn is undistinguished and the voice is similar, no colours, no variations. What was meant to suggest hunting, running and pack of dogs has been transformed in a lullaby.
There used to be a full version of this on TH-cam maaany years ago-it's a shame it was taken down because this performance is quite unique-but you make a valid critique. The rest of the performance is similar to this.
What a lumbering tempo. And I wasn't impressed with the horn. The performance of Andreas Scholl at Copenhagen is much more lively and involving vocally.
I love Andreas Scholl, but the Copenhagen staging didn't really convince me. It seemed that Scholl was portraying a leader who didn't enjoy being one at all. There was a lot of clumsiness and shyness in his Caesar, which was at times endearing but mostly annoying. I found Scholl's interactions with "Cleopatra" awful. Sarah Connolly's Caesar was convincingly torn between chivalry and lust.
@@MonaRenee Yes, I'm afraid many opera productions today are at odds with the music and libretto of the relevant opera. I don't blame Connolly here; she is a very fine singer. The fault lies primarily with Christie.
Trop scandé, trop zim boum boum, lourd ingénieur avec un tempo trop lent. Pesant, pénible ! Quant à l'enregistrement qui s'interrompt brutalement à la fin et qui a fini dans on ne sait quelle autre fosse d'orchestre, c'est complet À retirer de You Tube
Sarah Connolly is one of the most convincing mezzos I've ever seen in a pants role. Amazing.
May i ha e the test thanks?TO WHOM SHOULD I REFER?sorry im lost.....
I so so much agree with you 💯 ! She‘s the best for such roles!
More male than David Daniels in same part: th-cam.com/video/lXkiKgRmhP8/w-d-xo.htmlsi=2ix1yYHWoWycNclH
I have re-watched the DVD of this production several times during the COVID-pandemic to keep my spirits up. My poor neighbours must hate it by now as I cannot always resist singing along. Händel's music is captivating and timelessly beautiful. And this production was glorious. I especially loved the mechanical recreation of waves they used in several scenes. This was all pleasantly low-tech.
Maybe your neighbours discover Haendel because of you and they love him now ;-)
It is mesmeric I find myself singing along with it all the time! This is one of the best things they have done at GB in years I'd go back over and over again to see it; It is just GB at its very best.
Whoever was playing that horn was worth every penny.
Yes she was!!
I do more than fully agree with you ❤😊
And that was only the first part of a da capo aria!
So rare to find great singing combined with great acting. Such a pleasure to watch this over and over.
Glorious Sarah. Fabulous horn playing. Utter perfection.
I am transported to to a time when I was a psychiatric resident on ER call in a tertiary care medical center in Chicago -- me, a female 40 years ago. All 5' 4 1/2" inches of me, in very baggy, awful teal scrubs and an oversized white coat going up against all of the male, over 6 feet tall emergency room physicians
"fighting" about a known Bipolar patient who in my assessment required ICU care because of evidence of multiple drug ingestion. Believe me, the battles are nothing like the watered down dramas on TV. It is war with terrible consequences. When I see Sarah Connolly in this role, I do not experience her as a female "playing" a male character, but as a female with a strong, authoritative voice and a role involving life and death responsibility. I wish I could personally thank her for her inspiring voice and performance.
The beautiful singing accompanied by what must be the most beautiful music. Thank you Glyndebourne. Philippa Davies
I'm not a big opera fan but this Handel piece may be my gateway drug!
The opera is brimming with catchy arias it's all here the fire and brimstone and the gently soothing
What a great lump of genius that Handel ( Handael )was!
He threatened to throw a soprano out of a window!
Nice one Handel,baby she could handle your mood swings any day!
Ha Ha!
Funny, this aria was my gateway drug back in 2006 (sung by the amazing Andreas Scholl) and never looked back! Ever since opera, baroque opera above all, became a passion
@@vinniecoelho OMG that performance by Scholl in 2006 was mindblowing!
Interesting, this is the first time I ever liked a performance by a mezzo singing a man's role... and also, the first time I have really liked the Handelian style of opera singing. Brava, Sarah Connolly!!!
You should check out Kate Lindsey's Nero in the Met production of Händel's Agrippina. She did a fantastic job, too.
She does the swaggering general to perfection, doesn't she!!
Everything about this is great. The design, the choreography, the natural horns, the soloist and not forgetting that brilliant Tray on Head balancing trick! Now, where did I put that sellotape?
Maybe it’s just the lesbian in me but no countertenor is ever going to have the suave and sex appeal in this role that Connolly does, and that it is fantastically sung....that too
lostmybadger Nothing to do with lesbionics ! She a wonderful singer , professional , and artist . 🙂
Haha. I'm not a lesbian, but I wouldn't mind countertenors becoming a thing of the past much as castratos did and having all these roles now sung by women.
Well I’m not a lesbian and I feel exactly as you do. This role was handmade for Connolly. Too bad Handel didn’t live long enough to see/hear her.
Couldn't agree more, although there are some very fine male interpretations available - singers that is, though no doubt, somewhere, the other.
Janet Baker's recording is less flamboyant but equally fine.
is the lesbian in you talking for sure... I think she is sexy as a potato sack hahaha
Bought DVD and after watching numerous and versions this is the production I come back to time and time again. Danielle De Niese as Cleopatra and Christophe Dumaux as Ptolemy are equally superb. A must for any liver if this opera
I loved this production!!
Unknown to me until I saw the original at Glyndebourne in 2005.
One of the best opera productions ever IMHO and great to show off to people who don’t think that they will like opera.
Some comments here about lumbering tempos.
When I first saw this I assumed the dance and aria were an allegory for international diplomacy in a time of British colonial expansion. Tempo, playing and singing all seemed to chime with that idea for me - measured, stuffed shirt, iron fist in a velvet glove, passively aggressive, people carefully manoeuvreing around one another, etc.
Almost LOL funny for the audience to watch.
this production is one the greatest ever done at GB just seen it again recently for about the fifth time it is mesmeric.
Dame Sarah sings this SO well. In modern times, it seems that only countertenors sing the roles written for the castrati. I'm glad that mezzos are still given the chance. Most countertenors don't have the volume of a mezzo and many times it seems that a second or third rate countertenor will be cast over a first rate mezzo.
I am over the countertenor craze. Basta!
¡Qué espectáculo poderoso por Sarah Connolly, el reparto, y la Orquesta del Época de la Ilustración, como siempre. Brava, bravísima, muy bien hecho. Muchísimas gracias.
Cuanto más la escucho más me gusta. Es extraordinaria la conjunción de la voz de doña Sarah y de la orquesta.
I have listened to many versions of this as this is the bench mark performance. The pace is perfect, Sarah's voice is goosebump inducing and the horn is just sublime with perfect loudness and not a note wrong which is very hard to find in this piece. The play of the horn and the voice is magnificent. I have listened to this hundreds of time but I always wonder why the end is missing.
Tremendous singing and the Orchestra plays fantastic.
Brava Sarah! Plus she's a Stroudie. So proud.
La MÚSICA BARROCA es la mejor música del mundo entero
Wow. That voice works so well. I will be following Sarah Connelly. It's a good era to be in now. I like listening to Stutzmann Mingardo Genaux as well as a raft of wonderful countertenors. Jaroussky Scholl Orlinsky Davies Bertoni. So many colours
이 오페라에서 가장 좋아하는 곡입니다.
카운터테너 중에서는 안드레아스 숄, 메조 소프라노 중에서는 이 분의 목소리를 제일 좋아합니다
The best interpretation of this aria!! ❤️
Handel, a German writing Italian music for the English.
Italians invented the art of opera and all serious opera was written in Italian. Works that were not written in Italian were given other names like Singspiel in Germany and musical comedy in Great Britain.
That changed in the 19th century when operas could be written in any language.
Bravo Sarah Connolly!
A wonderful production!
Love this version of this va tacito
Tremendous singing!
Been there, seen in 3 days ago, under a huge impression of the Caesar impersonation - very good job, was a great pleasure to watch and listen. Not to mention the other characters phew!
Natalya Stocks same!! Been there and liked it SO much. Don’t you think they improved their choreography a bit? It seemed even more incredible
Tbh this is the first time I've seen it, but I guess that since I'm impressed then it all co-worked nicely, all the dances and costumes... also the guy who played Nireno was brilliant!!
No countertenor can produce such beautiful sound as a woman. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Literally shut up. I can tell you know ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about singing with your idiotic comment you just made
That's some good pacing choreography ^_^
If you speak italian,you are priviledged
Christophe Dumaux is always fabulous
I have been listening to a CD bought off eBay for pence and it is so wonderful that it tipped me over into ringing Glyndebourne to see if I could get a couple of tickets to see Giulio Cesare again. Sold out! Aargh! I shall not make the same mistake again, in the meantime I shall pester the box office for returns. If you're going you are in for a treat, so sumptuous is this production, so slick, such confidence.
It's revived in 2024. I haven't seen it yet and am wishing the time away.
Remember, MonaRenee, maybe your neighbours love the music by now. Your message made me cry because I'm listening to this and other Italian and Spanish baroque music tonight to help me recover from a 2nd bout of COVID. G. F Handel fue uno de los compositores más impresionantes de todo tiempo, claro. Esta versión es como realeza, más que la versión animada de David Lee, contratenor coreano.
bravo.take care.
Какой великолепный голос! Какая актерская игра! Потрясающе играет оркестр! Роскошная постановка.
Merci pour ce partage
very nice...
I like the rhythm of this song
love the blue peter backdrop !
not to forget in the cast: Christophe Dumaux as a fabulous Tolomeo
Pieter de Nijs Did you see the Met production where he shows up at the wedding, having been killed earlier, and spends the whole wedding celebration aria just trying to get a waiter to serve him a drink? It’s hilarious.
@@wallymarcel1 I thought he was in the final scene here, too?
Magnífico!! Sarah Connolly!!
astonishing. never seen anything like it. i've blundered into a scene, a reality, I've know nothing of. this is opera, I guess? surreal. About Julius Cesar. I was looking for a rendition of a scrap of music I have by Handel labelled simply 'Giulio Cesare'. Around 30 bars or so. In the key of G. Labelled 'Largo'. In 3/4 time. It kinda has the main theme: da dada daaa I'm not going to find it easy to find it amongst a whole opera am I? Anyone got any clues?
Favoloso!!
I do most certainly agree with u
Perfection.
🙏😘🙏
Lovely!
Estremamente convincente nel ruolo. Non solo vocalmente. Si veda anche in Ariodante, nel ruolo del titolo
Sarah Connelly looks a bit like Alan Partridge here
Who??
@@PMS1950 Alan Partridge - a popular UK broadcaster from the 90s. His career was nearly ruined when he shot a guest on his TV show. He's on the TH-cams
@@neilsanghvi5229 Sounds like a reasonable thing to do. Most talkshow guests/celebrities seem to be excessively dull and pointless. Good on him.
...shit. She does.
Philip Savins He’s actually a character portrayed by Steve Coogan 😂
THIS IS THÉ ONLY FEMALE CÉSAR I TOLERATE
EVEN LIKE
Anche io!
I like every Cesar...at the condition that is sung by a woman and not by a fake castrato
Well, I can only imagine how great Lorraine Hunt's performance of this would have been.
James Rodriguez Jennifer Larmore was great too.
Is the horn player Andrew Clark? That's the highlight of this aria for me!
The horn players for the 2005 production (when this was filmed) were Andrew Clark and Martin Lawrence.
I thought I was looking at a gifted countertenor here but it's a woman, damn the makeup artist must have been godly paid.
belle expression!
Ottimo
He struck the right chord.
Wonderful mysic! Wonderful mysic! But boy is that staging effed up?
Where can get the whole opera?
The full opera is available on DVD from our Shop: www.glyndebourneshop.com/giulio-cesare-glyndebourne-2005.html
Belle version de ce classique...
What is the aria at the start of act 2 in this production ?????
Madame Connolly possiede voce potente e squillante, note scure ed acuti agili e sicuri; ma l'allestimento scenico contrasta fortemente con Giulio Cesare... non si riesce a comprendere la mania di questi registi!
la capisco...comprendo.beh finkhe kantano.....
Precioso
who’s the character Cesare is dancing with? Tolomeo?
Ich schlafe jetzt ein.
😵💥👏👏👏
Нь красивый голос у Сары💖💖💖
이공연에서 사라 코놀리는 대단한 능력을 보여줬죠. 줄리오 체사레 공연들중 최고라고 생각합니다.
she certainly does a very good job but I think it’d have been fabulous to have a true contralto with the deep, rich bottom for this role
th-cam.com/video/bj3GqIqXKus/w-d-xo.html
From a wonderful and first class production.
Gaelle ARQUEZ as Giulio Cesare, Carlo VISTOLI as Tolomeo and also Sabine DEVIEILHE as Cleopatra and Lucile RICHARDOT as Cornelia. One of the most beautiful version of this Handel's masterpiece.
gives me chicken skin!!!!
E hanno pure il coraggio di mettere la firma, a questa boiata!?
Povero Handel...
♥️
Someone knows who is the male servant?
If by the male servant you mean Nireno (Tolomeo and Cleopatra’s servant) his name is Rachid Ben Abdeslam, he is a moroccan countertenor
She is so bad assed. RULE BRITTANIA. The Brits: the only ones we as American soldiers will die with and FOR.
?
maybesinging toghether....
So lovely, but far too slow to my mind.
Perhaps she's being steady and cautious - you can't rush into world domination!
@@PMS1950 I agree ! :-)
Mais... Tronquée !!!
G.F. Handel
so... unitalian of her.
??
But of course maybe i am rong.i think she is australian.anyway she is escellent ... a great singer a nice lady
Sorriso for englhish.
non ho suono! no sound!
BUT THÉ DANCY THINGY AT THÉ VERY START DO IT WELL OR LOSE IT
совести у вас конечно нет - так обрезать 8-минутный номер
This is the singer Sara Conolly and not Glyndebourne !
Christian Kolbe is that a serious comment?? hahaha
Well.... given that this is an abridged version my comment is going to be hazardous. Great directing idea making the characters dance, nice costumes but such a flat vocal and orchestral performance! Slow pace, solo horn is undistinguished and the voice is similar, no colours, no variations. What was meant to suggest hunting, running and pack of dogs has been transformed in a lullaby.
There used to be a full version of this on TH-cam maaany years ago-it's a shame it was taken down because this performance is quite unique-but you make a valid critique. The rest of the performance is similar to this.
Thanks a lot for sharing your opinion@@matthewcarr2255
@@matthewcarr2255 try BIF Buxton.
Everything about this is wonderful: Dame Sarah, the design, the choreography, the costumes... expect the orchestra which is utterly horrible.
What a lumbering tempo. And I wasn't impressed with the horn. The performance of Andreas Scholl at Copenhagen is much more lively and involving vocally.
I love Andreas Scholl, but the Copenhagen staging didn't really convince me. It seemed that Scholl was portraying a leader who didn't enjoy being one at all. There was a lot of clumsiness and shyness in his Caesar, which was at times endearing but mostly annoying. I found Scholl's interactions with "Cleopatra" awful. Sarah Connolly's Caesar was convincingly torn between chivalry and lust.
@@MonaRenee Yes, I'm afraid many opera productions today are at odds with the music and libretto of the relevant opera. I don't blame Connolly here; she is a very fine singer. The fault lies primarily with Christie.
The text of the aria is about stealth. A faster tempo would go completely against this basic dramatic concept.
Trop scandé, trop zim boum boum, lourd ingénieur avec un tempo trop lent. Pesant, pénible !
Quant à l'enregistrement qui s'interrompt brutalement à la fin et qui a fini dans on ne sait quelle autre fosse d'orchestre, c'est complet
À retirer de You Tube
T’as fini de dire n’importe quoi… c’est magique j’ai eu la chance de voir cette mise en scène à NY au Met avec Nathalie Dessay, inoubliable…
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