Christophe Dumaux I Händel: “Se in fiorito ameno prato” Giulio Cesare (HD)

Händel: “Se in fiorito ameno prato” – Julius Caesar’s aria from the opera Giulio Cesare in Egitto, Act 2, HWV 1 Christophe Dumaux (countertenor) Andrea Bressan (bassoon) Eszter Lesták Bedő, Ágnes Biró (violin) Aviad Gershoni, Susanne Regel (oboe) Conducted by Jonathan Cohen Budapest Festival Orchestra 2022 ------- This time, the authentic appearance and movement will be presented by Christophe Dumaux, whose voice was hailed as “bright, clear and strong” in a review in The New York Times, while he was described as “tall, trim and athletic: a natural on stage”. He has sung in Handel’s operas on the world’s greatest stages from the Vienna Staatsoper and La Scala in Milan to the Metropolitan Opera in New York. In addition to the opera arias, a beautiful cantata and a moving Marian hymn and concertos by Vivaldi will also be performed, conducted by Jonathan Cohen, a British master of Baroque music and a return conductor of the Festival Orchestra. ------