Tcherniakov: Giulio Cesare in Egitto

Caesar – Christophe Dumaux

Cleopatra – Olga Kulchynska

Cornelia – Lucile Richardot

Tolomeo – Yuriy Mynenko

Achilla – Andrei Zhilikhovsky

Sesto – Federico Fiorio

Director & Sets – Dmitri Tcherniakov

Conductor – Emmanuelle Haïm

Costume designer – Elena Zaiceva

Lighting designer – Gleb Filshtinsky

Three hundred years old and as timely as ever, Handel's monumental Giulio Cesare in Egitto (Julius Caesar in Egypt) arrives at the 2025 Salzburg Festival in a new staging by the audacious, award-winning Dmitri Tcherniakov! 

When Caesar (Christophe Dumaux) comes to Egypt on the hunt for his enemy Pompey, he discovers that the pharaoh Ptolemy (Yuriy Mynenko) has beaten him to the punch, setting Pompey's son Sextus (Federico Fiorio) on a mission for vengeance — all while Ptolemy's sister Cleopatra (Olga Kulchynska) schemes to take the throne for herself, leading her directly into the path of Caesar… 

This tale of uncompromising rivalries and the corrupting thrall of political power is animated by one of Handel's finest scores, majestic in the hands of expert Baroque ensemble Le Concert d'Astrée under their celebrated founder Emmanuelle Haïm.