Does the Haar measure change when switching representations on a Lie group?

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I'm not sure if this question belongs to here, but here it goes

Suppose you have to integrate over a lie group in the fundamental representation. If you pass to the adjoint representation of that group, does the Haar measure have to change? I think that it should not change because it is invariant under left and right translations, is it correct?
 
dextercioby said:
Integrate what?

Some function f: G -> ℝ, where G is the Lie group. For example, the Itzykson-Zuber integral

∫dUexp(-tr(XUYU†)), where X, Y are n x n hermitean matrices and U ∈ U(n)