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Giulio Cesare in Egitto premiered at the King's Theatre in London on 20 February 1724. At the time, Händel was the most respected composer on English soil as well as director of the Royal Academy of Music, which had been successfully promoting Italian opera in London since 1719. Julius Caesar, a musical drama in three acts to a libretto by Nicholas Francis Haym, was met with great triumph followed by thirteen performances with the theatre completely sold out. The opera is based on the historical episode of Caesar's campaign in Egypt in pursuit of his enemy Pompey after the Battle of Pharsalus. In Egypt, Caesar will meet the cunning and deceitful King Ptolemy and the perturbing Cleopatra, who will try to seduce him to her own advantage, only to fall in love with him for real. The opera was a perfect sampler of Baroque marvels: a first-rate vocal cast, which included the famous castrato Senesino in the title role and the soprano Francesca Cuzzoni in that of Cleopatra, a sumptuous and spectacular staging, and refined and beautifully crafted music. In the continuous scansion of recitatives and arias, typical of 18th-century opera, Giulio Cesare contains some of the composer's most popular pages such as the accompanied recitative “Alma del gran Pompeo”, sung by the protagonist before the urn of his murdered enemy Pompey.

Giulio Cesare in Egitto

Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Theatre

Following the success of "I maneggi per maritare una figlia" and "Pignasecca e Pignaverde," the Teatro Sociale di Camogli continues its Govi ​​project by staging another of the great Genoese actor's best-known works: "Colpi di timone." The director and star is once again Tullio Solenghi, who for the third time transforms body, soul, and voice into Gilberto Govi. A hilarious comedy about the power of truth to expose the great and small hypocrisies of everyday life, brought to the stage by a
highly experienced company of actors selected by Solenghi himself.

Tullio Solenghi in “Helm Strokes”

Alexandrian Theater

Seduction and intrigue: The romance between Cleopatra and Caesar during his conquest of Egypt is one of the most famous love affairs in the world. George Frideric Händel’s opera based on this story was a sensational success. The composer’s contemporaries declared it «beauty of all kinds in abundance». Even today, the magic of this music remains unbroken. In this Opéra de Monte-Carlo production, director Davide Livermore transfers the action to a luxurious cruise ship on the Nile. Cecilia Bartoli sings Cleopatra, one of her most thrilling roles.

Julius Caesar in Egypt

Zurich Opera House

La Bohème

Teatro dell'Opera di Roma

One of Verdi's unparalleled masterpieces, Don Carlo, is presented in a visually rich, new staging by one of Europe's most genre-redefining directors, the Italian Davide Livermore, alongside the designer team Giò Forma.

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Don Carlo

Copenhagen Opera House

Angelica, Alcina, Bradamante, and Clorinda are the narrative engine of Ariosto's masterpiece, where desire, power, and female agency drive events. Davide Livermore's direction enhances the original octave meter, blending it with live music by the Chimera Ensemble and entrusting the entire score to a cast of excellent performers (Anna Della Rosa, Linda Gennari, Mariangela Granelli, Laura Marinoni, Fulvio Pepe, and Silvia Bennett). The performance thus restores the poem's richness and variety, and its ability to portray the complexity of humanity and passions with elegant language and boundless imagination.

Set Designer, Director

Davide Livermore

Events

Upcoming events

2 - 14 Feb, 2027

Orlando Furioso · Teatro Stabile Torino

Past events

14 - 25 Jun, 2026

Giulio Cesare in Egitto · Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Apr 9, 2026

Tullio Solenghi in “Helm Strokes” · Teatro Alessandrino

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