During the summer of 2025, at the Salzburg Festival, French mezzo-soprano Lucile Richardot recounts her experiences behind the scenes of Handel’s Giulio Cesare, in which she played Cornelia in a production directed by Dmitri Tcherniakov and conducted by Emmanuelle Haïm. Between cargo bike rides, persistent rain, marathon rehearsals, fights on stage, bruises on her body, stress before the dress rehearsal, and a lost contact lens, she delivers the diary of an intense and unique artistic adventure, divided between rehearsals, stage performances, and moments of everyday life.
Last summer at the Salzburg Festspiele, French mezzo-soprano Lucile Richardot performed Cornelia in Handel’s Giulio Cesare, in a staging by Dmitri Tcherniakov and with Emmanuelle Haïm as musical director. Between a bike ride, a rehearsal and a quick meal, she agreed to share with us the diary she kept during this singular adventure!
Rain, marathon rehearsals, stress before the continuo run-through: in the second instalment of her Giulio Cesare diary in Salzburg, where she performed Cornelia last summer, French mezzo-soprano Lucile Richardot continues her chronicle of the adventure that is a production by director Dmitri Tcherniakov.
A cargo-bike ride, onstage brawls, bruises on the body and a lost contact lens: the final episode of Lucile Richardot’s Salzburg diary, during the rehearsals and the opening night of “Giulio Cesare” in the summer of 2025, holds a few surprises!
