L'assassinio di Cesare: melodramma in due atti

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Giselher Klebe
Operas[show] Die Räuber (1957) Die tödlichen Wünsche (1959) Die Ermordung Cäsars (1959) Alkmene (1961) Figaro lässt sich scheiden (1963) Jacobowsky und der Oberst (1965) Das Märchen von der schönen Lilie (1969) Ein wahrer Held (1975) Das Mädchen aus Domrémy (1976) Das Rendezvous (1973) Der Jüngste Tag (1980) Die Fastnachtsbeichte (1983) Gervaise Macquart (1995) Chlestakows Wiederkehr (2008)
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Die Ermordung Cäsars, op.32, (The Murder of Caesar) is an opera in one act by Giselher Klebe who also wrote the libretto based on the Shakespeare translation by August Wilhelm von Schlegel.


It premiered on 20 September 1959 at the Grillo-Theater, Essen. It is dedicated to the German composer Wilhelm Maler (de).

 Roles

• Caesar (baritone)
• Mark Antony (baritone)
• Publius and Popilius Lena, senators (sprechgesang, spoken role)
• Conspirators against Caesar:
  • Brutus (bariton)
  • Cassius (tenor buffo)
  • Casca (bass)
  • Decius (spoken role)
  • Metellus Cimber (spoken role)
• A soothsayer (bass)
• Cinna, a poet (tenor)
• People of Rome

Time and Place: Ancient Rome, 44 BC

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