Handel: Giulio Cesare / Scholl, Dam-Jensen, Mortensen [DVD]
Conductor: Lars Ulrik Mortensen | Composer(s): George Frideric Handel | Director: Thomas Grimm | Performer(s): Andreas Scholl, Palle Knudsen, John Lundgren, Randi Stene, Christopher Robson | Orchestra/Ensemble: Concerto Copenhagen | Label: Harmonia Mundi | 2 DVD9 | Picture format: 4:3 Full screen | Sound format: PCM Stereo / DTS 5.0 | File host: Share-online.biz | 5% recovery record + 1 .rev file | Run time: 216 minutes | 13 GB
Subtitle(s): German, English, French, Italian
Conductor: Lars Ulrik Mortensen | Composer(s): George Frideric Handel | Director: Thomas Grimm | Performer(s): Andreas Scholl, Palle Knudsen, John Lundgren, Randi Stene, Christopher Robson | Orchestra/Ensemble: Concerto Copenhagen | Label: Harmonia Mundi | 2 DVD9 | Picture format: 4:3 Full screen | Sound format: PCM Stereo / DTS 5.0 | File host: Share-online.biz | 5% recovery record + 1 .rev file | Run time: 216 minutes | 13 GB
Subtitle(s): German, English, French, Italian
Here is what is probably Handel’s most accomplished opera: the heir to L’incoronazione di Poppea with respect to the villainy of some of its characters, but also the Baroque ancestor of certain Romantic operas! Scrupulously based on historical characters, this work illustrates many different facets of the human soul, and also boasts perhaps the most sumptuous orchestral textures Handel ever conceived, magnificently brought out by Lars Ulrik Mortensen in this production from the Copenhagen Opera. Francisco Negrin’s transposition of the opera to the universe of modern war and Anthony Baker’s refined designs place Andreas Scholl (Giulio Cesare) and the other soloists in an unsettling, crepuscular atmosphere that is highly contemporary.
