Giulio Cesare in Egitto AEC Music August 1961

August 1961

Tonia and Cytherea

as well as a glimpse of what could follow when it was all over

as melodies followed an internal logic only apparent to Spaltro herself

and NEA Jazz Master Kenny Barron on piano

Giulio Cesare in Egitto AEC Music August 1961Triumphantly premiered in 1724 at the King's Theatre in London, George Frideric Handel's Giulio Cesare in Egitto masterfully combines human emotions: Triumph with sorrow, despair with happiness and love with profound melancholy in the face of the transience of all earthly life. Star director Keith Warner creates a production that imaginatively blends silent film and baroque opera, delightfully echoing Mankiewicz's legendary Cleopatra with Elizabeth