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* AdaptationDistillation: Sartorio's opera is way longer, has a way more convoluted plot and its characters are constantly falling in love with/declaring hate for/[[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers getting disguised as each other]]. Haym's removal of many of Bussani's details brings focus to the two main plotlines (Caesar and Cleopatra, Cornelia and Sextus), both dramatically and musically.

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* AdaptationDistillation: Sartorio's opera is way longer, has a way more convoluted plot and its characters are constantly falling in love with/declaring hate for/[[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers getting for/getting disguised as each other]].other. Haym's removal of many of Bussani's details brings focus to the two main plotlines (Caesar and Cleopatra, Cornelia and Sextus), both dramatically and musically.
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''Giulio Cesare in Egitto'' (''Julius Caesar in Egypt''), often shortened to ''Giulio Cesare'', is a 1725 opera by Music/GeorgeFredericHandel, considered to be one of his best works and one of the best-known [[BaroqueMusic. Baroque]] operas overall nowadays. The libretto by Nicola Haym is a rewrite of an earlier libretto by Giacomo Francesco Bussani (adapted to music by Antonio Sartorio; it's believed Händel used some of his music too when writing his version) and is extremely loosely based on the relationship of UsefulNotes/CleopatraVII and UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar, and the civil conflict in Egypt in which they were involved.

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''Giulio Cesare in Egitto'' (''Julius Caesar in Egypt''), often shortened to ''Giulio Cesare'', is a 1725 opera by Music/GeorgeFredericHandel, considered to be one of his best works and one of the best-known [[BaroqueMusic. [[BaroqueMusic Baroque]] operas overall nowadays. The libretto by Nicola Haym is a rewrite of an earlier libretto by Giacomo Francesco Bussani (adapted to music by Antonio Sartorio; it's believed Händel used some of his music too when writing his version) and is extremely loosely based on the relationship of UsefulNotes/CleopatraVII and UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar, and the civil conflict in Egypt in which they were involved.
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''Giulio Cesare in Egitto'' (''Julius Caesar in Egypt''), often shortened to ''Giulio Cesare'', is a 1725 opera by Music/GeorgeFredericHandel, considered to be one of his best works and one of the best-known Baroque operas overall nowadays. The libretto by Nicola Haym is a rewrite of an earlier libretto by Giacomo Francesco Bussani (adapted to music by Antonio Sartorio; it's believed Händel used some of his music too when writing his version) and is extremely loosely based on the relationship of UsefulNotes/CleopatraVII and UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar, and the civil conflict in Egypt in which they were involved.

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''Giulio Cesare in Egitto'' (''Julius Caesar in Egypt''), often shortened to ''Giulio Cesare'', is a 1725 opera by Music/GeorgeFredericHandel, considered to be one of his best works and one of the best-known Baroque [[BaroqueMusic. Baroque]] operas overall nowadays. The libretto by Nicola Haym is a rewrite of an earlier libretto by Giacomo Francesco Bussani (adapted to music by Antonio Sartorio; it's believed Händel used some of his music too when writing his version) and is extremely loosely based on the relationship of UsefulNotes/CleopatraVII and UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar, and the civil conflict in Egypt in which they were involved.
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** Sextus Pompey becomes a staunch supporter of Caesar after the latter agrees to a peace. In RealLife, he remained Caesar's enemy (and later his chosen successor Octavian's enemy) for the rest of his life

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** Sextus Pompey becomes a staunch supporter of Caesar after the latter agrees to a peace. In RealLife, he remained Caesar's enemy (and later his chosen successor Octavian's enemy) for the rest of his lifelife.
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* HistoricalRelationshipOverhaul:
** Achillas and Ptolemy are in love with Pompey the Great's widow Cornelia, while there is no historical evidence for that.
** Sextus Pompey becomes a staunch supporter of Caesar after the latter agrees to a peace. In RealLife, he remained Caesar's enemy (and later his chosen successor Octavian's enemy) for the rest of his life
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* HistoricalRelationshipOverhaul:
** Mozart and Salieri were not mortal enemies as they are in the play, but rather friendly competitors in the same business.
** Salieri was not celibate, and he was the father of eight children with and his AdaptedOut wife. The woman in the play whom he lusts after but denies himself, Caterina Cavalieri, was Salieri's mistress in real life.
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* HistoricalRelationshipOverhaul:
** Mozart and Salieri were not mortal enemies as they are in the play, but rather friendly competitors in the same business.
** Salieri was not celibate, and he was the father of eight children with and his AdaptedOut wife. The woman in the play whom he lusts after but denies himself, Caterina Cavalieri, was Salieri's mistress in real life.
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* ContraltoOfDanger:
** Inverted with the female characters – Cornelia, a contralto, is the more timid of them, and Cleopatra, a soprano, is the tougher one.
** Played straight if Caesar, Ptolemy and/or Sextus are sung by women.
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* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: A villainous example with the boyish-voiced Ptolemy, who loves to rhapsodize about the beauty of his concubines (or ''potential'' concubines) and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick about how he’ll torture and kill his enemies]], and the BadassBaritone Achillas whose arias have much less elaborate lyrics and who prefers brutal force over poisonous cunning.

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* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: A villainous example with the boyish-voiced Ptolemy, who loves to rhapsodize about the beauty of his concubines (or ''potential'' concubines) and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick about how he’ll torture and kill his enemies]], and the BadassBaritone baritone Achillas whose arias have much less elaborate lyrics and who prefers brutal force over poisonous cunning.

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* WorthyOpponent: Caesar highly admires Pompey’s leadership skills and courage and is ready to reconcile with him.
* YouGotSpunk: In David [=McVicar=]’s production, Achillas finds it endearing when Cornelia pushes him away again and again. When she slaps him so hard he falls back, he grins in delight.

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* WorthyOpponent: Caesar highly admires Pompey’s leadership skills and courage and is ready to reconcile with him.
* YouGotSpunk: In David [=McVicar=]’s production, Achillas finds it endearing when Cornelia pushes him away again and again. When she slaps him so hard he falls back, he grins in delight.
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