Name: Giulio Cesare
Start: 2024-06-01
End: 2024-06-01
Location: Lismore Castle

Admin

Blackwater Valley Opera Festival

Conductor

Nicholas McGegan

Orchestra

Irish Baroque Orchestra

Others

BVOF Chorus

Stage director

Tom Creed

Costume designer

Catherine Fay

Set designer

Aedín Cosgrove

Lighting designer

Singer

Ingeborg Bröcheler

Soloists

Anna Devin

Nils Wanderer

Sharon Carty

Dean Murphy

Iestyn Morris

Fionn Ó hAlmhain

Artistic Director

Dieter Kaegi

Contralto

Carolyn Holt

Cornelia

Italian

Giulio Cesare

Lismore

Ireland

Lismore Castle

Public

Julius Caesar in Egypt

Sushant Karmakar

Approved

Ireland’s Summer Opera Festival will return from 27 May – 3 June 2024 with four performances of  G.F. Handel’s Giulio Cesare in the grounds of Lismore Castle, Co. Waterford.

Giulio Cesare is one of Handel’s greatest Italian operas, and is now one of the most performed Baroque operas in the repertoire. The headline opera will feature the Irish Baroque Orchestra and the BVOF Chorus, conducted by Nicholas McGegan, directed by Tom Creed, with Set & Light Design by Aedín Cosgrove and Costume Design by Catherine Fay. The Giulio Cesare cast will include Ingeborg Bröcheler, Anna Devin, Nils Wanderer, Carolyn Holt, Sharon Carty, Dean Murphy, Iestyn Morris and Fionn Ó hAlmhain.

Four evening performances of this year’s opera – our headline festival event, will take place in the grounds Lismore Castle, with an additional performance of a Dress Rehearsal for Schools on Monday 27 May. The production is made possible with generous production sponsorship from the John Pollard Foundation.

English

Giulio Cesare by Händel, Sat 01 Jun 2024, From (2024/2024), Directed by Tom Creed,, Conductor Nicholas McGegan, Lismore Castle, Lismore, Ireland

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