in Early Music Today (Mar, 2013)
Set in the basement of a museum where the statues come to life, this Giulio Cesare is a real curate’s egg. The good parts are Lawrence Zazzo’s imperious Cesare and Isabel Leonard’s ardent Sesto, both beautifully sung and always faithful to Handel’s sublime music; the bad include Natalie Dessay’s flippant, simpering Cleopatra, Varduhi Abrahamyan’s underpowered Cornelia and, alas, Laurent Pelly’s direction. He’s from the misguided school that believes arias need visual ‘enhancement’. A few effective touches are offset by such risible notions as having Cesare sing ‘Va tacito’ seated in a glass case; and while Dessay’s later, tragic Cleopatra is a more credible figure — ‘Se pieta’ is her one great …
Haendel : Giulio Cesare. Haïm.
Georg Friedrich Haendel : Giulio Cesare.
Lawrence Zazzo (Giulio Cesare), Natalie Dessay (Cleopatra), Isabel Leonard (Sesto), Varduhi Abrahamyan (Cornelia), Christophe Dumaux (Tolomeo), Nathan Berg (Achilla), Dominique Visse (Niremo), Chœur de l’Opéra de Paris, Le Concert d’Astrée, Emmanuelle Haïm, direction. Mise en scène : Laurent Pelly.
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