Artiste: Samantha Clarke

The music plays second fiddle to Australian circus company Circa in Yaron Lifschitz’s production of Gluck's great opera. 

Emotions on stage are matched by those rising from the pit as Sarah Giles' popular production returns to Sydney. 

Handel's Giulio Cesare is heavily abridged in Sydney, but generally well-performed musically, albeit with a rather awkward staging by Neil Armfield.