Giulio Cesare in Egitto

Giulio Cesare in Egitto (2025)

Music

Three hundred years old and as timely as ever, Handel's monumental Giulio Cesare in Egitto (Julius Caesar in Egypt) arrives at the 2025 Salzburg Festival in a new staging by the audacious, award-winning Dmitri Tcherniakov! When Caesar (Christophe Dumaux) comes to Egypt on the hunt for his enemy Pompey, he discovers that the pharaoh Ptolemy (Yuriy Mynenko) has beaten him to the punch, setting Pompey's son Sextus (Federico Fiorio) on a mission for vengeance — all while Ptolemy's sister Cleopatra (Olga Kulchynska) schemes to take the throne for herself, leading her directly into the path of Caesar… This tale of uncompromising rivalries and the corrupting thrall of political power is animated by one of Handel's finest scores, majestic in the hands of expert Baroque ensemble Le Concert d'Astrée under their celebrated founder Emmanuelle Haïm.

Director: Dmitri Tcherniakov

Casts

	Christophe Dumaux as Giulio Cesare
	Olga Kulchynska as Cleopatra
	Lucile Richardot as Cornelia
	Federico Fiorio as Sesto
	Yuriy Mynenko as Tolomeo
	Andrey Zhilikhovsky as Achilla
	Jake Ingbar as Nireno
	Robert Raso as Curio

Crew