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Sir David McVicar's ridiculously entertaining romp through Handel's Giulio Cesare in Egitto returns to Glyndebourne. Unveiled at the 2005 festival, where it made a star of Danielle de Niese (then Cleopatra, now châtelaine), it was last revived in 2009. McVicar resets the action from 48BC to the zenith of the British Empire, Egypt under Ottoman rule, references to the British Raj and Bollywood thrown in.