15:05, Wed, Jul 3, 2024 Updated: 16:02, Wed, Jul 3, 2024 Glory, romance, misery, revenge, treachery and plotting, all to a score of beautiful music, Handel's Giulio Cesare (that's Julius Caesar in ...
Ideal lovers: Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen as Cesare and Louise Alder as CleopatraAll images by Richard Hubert Smith © Glyndebourne Productions Ltd No Cesare can afford a ...
With its plum roles for the castrato Senesino and the soprano Francesca Cuzzoni, Handel’s Giulio Cesare enjoyed huge success when it opened in 1724; no other Handel opera has launched so many ...
That this is the third outing for David McVicar’s Giulio Cesare at Glyndebourne in just five seasons is emphatic testimony to the charm of this all-singing all-dancing fantasy of a production, proving ...
Unmissable revival of David McVicar’s production shimmers and dazzles Even the fight scenes are good. That’s not something you often say of international singers appearing in baroque opera, but the ...
Opera's latest enfant terrible director David McVicar returns to Glyndebourne to revive his hit of last year, Handel's Giulio Cesare. First performed in London in 1724, it tells the story of the ...
Ideal lovers: Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen as Cesare and Louise Alder as Cleopatra No Cesare can afford a less than lustrous mother and son, Handel usually spends a first act setting up characters at leisure; ...
If you don't mind a little fun with your opera seria, David McVicar's production of Handel's Julius Caesar will give you a wonderful evening's entertainment. Purists be warned, this is no static piece ...