#dumaux as tolomeo did things to my brain LOL. he's so captivating. wringing him out like a wet dish rag.
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do you have any recs for recordings of giulio cesare i can watch/listen to? preferably very contrasting ones? tysm
(it’s probably not the healthiest thing ever that every time i get stuck on an assignment for my music history class i show up in your askbox. (this is the verdi research anon if you remember me.) but oh well!)
admittedly the only video i've watched in full is the 2013 mcvicar production on the met on demand. it's fairly solid even if you do have to suffer through daniels as cesare (on the bright side, dumaux tolomeo!). there's an earlier glyndebourne performance that i think is on medici.tv but not institutional access so i haven't watched that one in full yet, only clips. can't speak to any other videos since i haven't gotten around to watching any in their entireties yet, but from at least browsing clips around there sure are some WEIRD ones out there. so i think the one on the met is a decent place to start even if i think it kind of loses its own point somewhere along the way with its staging. the musical performances are great at least.
as for listening, i usually listen to this album, partially because it doesn't do anything i find egregious tempo/ornamentation wise, partially out of convenience (it's the one that my music app lets me stream lol). there's a couple older audio recordings on the met too, i think i've listened to one of them and thought it was fine. basically as long as cesare is still a treble voice i'm willing to give it a listen, if they recast that mf as a baritone though i bail immediately
#sasha answers#anon#giulio cesare#giulio cesare in egitto#genuinely love that someone else out there is being subjected to giulio cesare for a music history class#that was my first real foray into opera obsession back in jan '22...ahh memories#dumaux as tolomeo did things to my brain LOL. he's so captivating. wringing him out like a wet dish rag.#i think the mcvicar prod tries to make some weird points and doesn't really stick the landing in the end it's kind of muddled to me#but it's at least quite pretty to look at#and. from what i can gather from clips of other productions...it seems fairly tame as far as giulio cesare Konzepts go LOL#anyway if i have any followers with other recs please sound off in the notes#for anon's sake and also my own cause once i'm not drowning in work i'd like to check another prod out at some point
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