Giulio Cesare
23 June – 23 August 2024
Performance Dates
Handel’s masterpiece, full of seduction, dazzling spectacle and vocal fireworks, is given the all-singing, all-dancing treatment in this Glyndebourne classic.
Sung in Italian with English supertitles.
Creative team
Conductor
Laurence Cummings
Director
David McVicar
Set Designer
Robert Jones
Costume Designer
Brigitte Reiffenstuel
Lighting Designer
Paule Constable
Choreographer
Andrew George
Assistant Conductor
Fernando Aguado
Assistant Director
Ian Rutherford
Repetiteurs
William Cole & Henry Websdale
Language Coaches
Caterina Galiotto & Alessandra Testai
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
The Glyndebourne Chorus
Chorus Director Aidan Oliver
Assistant Chorus Director
Avishka Edirisinghe
Cast includes
Giulio Cesare
Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen
Cleopatra
Louise Alder
Johanna Wallroth (12, 19 July)
Sesto
Svetlina Stoyanova
Tolomeo
Cameron Shahbazi
Achilla
Luca Tittoto
Sam Carl (8, 11, 13, 16, 23 August)
Cornelia
Beth Taylor
Nireno
Ray Chenez
Curio
Thomas Chenhall
The edition by Winton Dean and Sarah Fuller is performed by arrangement with Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.
Photos: Mike Hoban
Performance timings
Timings are subject to change.
*Restaurants open
25, 28 JUNE
2, 5, 12, 19, 24, 31 JULY
3 AUGUST
Gardens open: 2.00pm
Opera starts: 4.00pm
Interval (20 mins): 5.25pm
Opera resumes: 5.45pm
Interval (90 mins)*: 6.50pm
Opera resumes: 8.20pm
Opera ends: 9.30pm
23 JUNE
8, 11, 13, 16, 23 AUGUST
Gardens open: 1.00pm
Opera starts: 3.00pm
Interval (20 mins): 4.25pm
Opera resumes: 4.45pm
Interval (90 mins)*: 5.50pm
Opera resumes: 7.20pm
Opera ends: 8.30pm
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Main image: Photography by Suteishi/Getty Images. Art direction & design by Ollie Winser