Handel Giulio Cesare 12 years old

Opera directors think they know better than the composers what should happen on stage and ...

"Bartoli remains at her peak. Not only is her coloratura flawless, and her voice as colorful and ravishingly beautiful as ever, but her ability to use her incomparable technique at the service of expression has also deepened with age. As a seductress, Bartoli was irresistible. Teasing out her incomparably agile coloratura runs, she softened high notes to tickle the senses with a mixture of sweetness and delight. When, in the second act, she mounted a missile and diagonally ascended into the heavens, it felt as though she were riding the ultimate pink Cadillac off to her honeymoon rendezvous. And in her final aria, "Da tempeste il legno infranto" when she danced around the stage and adorned herself with strings of lights while flashing the trademark Bartoli smile, it was all one could do to resist running onstage and give her a huge hug."

Credits

Handel Giulio Cesare Cast

Name	Character
Jochen Kowalski He was 58, now 70 years old	as Nirena
Philippe Jaroussky He was 34, now 46 years old	as Sesto

Handel Giulio Cesare Crew

Name	Department
Georg Friedrich Händel as Compositors. He was 327 (74) years old when He died	Crew