Organization

Singer

Soprano

Kristina Mkhitaryan

Cleopatra

Countertenor

Kate Lindsey

Sesto

Contralto

Karen Cargill

Cornelia

Iestyn Davies

Julius Caesar

Anthony Roth Costanzo

Tolomeo

Bass

Duncan Rock

Achilla

John Holiday

Nireno

Christopher Zaremba

Curio

Conductor

Harry Bicket

Stage director

David McVicar

Set designer

Robert Jones

Costume designer

Brigitte Reiffenstuel

Lighting designer

Paule Constable

Choreographer

Andrew George

Tamara Gura

The Metropolitan Opera

Italian

Matias Vergara Moyano

Giulio Cesare in Egitto -  (Julius Caesar in Egypt)

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Giulio Cesare in Egitto Händel

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Julius Caesar in Egypt

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These performances and the entirety of the 2020–21 season have been CANCELED based on the advice of health officials who advise the Met and Lincoln Center. For more information and to review your options if you purchased tickets for any of these dates, read the complete announcement.

One of the Met’s most inventive productions, Sir David McVicar’s vibrant Bollywood-inspired take on Handel’s Baroque masterpiece transports the tale of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra to the age of British imperialism. Countertenor Iestyn Davies portrays the most powerful man in the world, opposite rising soprano Kristina Mkhitaryan as the world’s most alluring queen. On the heels of his show-stopping performance in Akhnaten, countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo portrays another Egyptian ruler—Ptolemy, Cleopatra’s brother—and mezzo-sopranos Karen Cargill and Kate Lindsey round out the exceptional cast. Harry Bicket conducts.

Production owned by Glyndebourne Festival Opera

Production a gift of the Arthur F. and Alice E. Adams Charitable Foundation, in memory of William B. Warren, former Co-Trustee and Governor of the Foundation; and the Mercedes T. Bass Charitable Corporation

Additional funding from The Annenberg Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts

Revival a gift of C. Graham Berwind, III

Julius Caesar in Egypt by Händel, From (2021/2021), Directed by David McVicar,, Conductor Harry Bicket, Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, United States

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