Static but worth the slog: ETO's Giulio Cesare

Par Olivia Bell, 09 octobre 2017

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“Soraya Mafi, dazzling as Cleopatra, was heartbreakingly beautiful in “Piangerò la sorte mia””

Critique faite à Hackney Empire, Londres, le 7 octobre 2017

Haendel, Jules César en Egypte (Giulio Cesare in Egitto) (Part 1: The Death of Pompey)

English Touring Opera

Jonathan Peter Kenny, Direction

James Conway, Mise en scène

Cordelia Chisholm, Décors, Costumes

Christopher Ainslie, Jules César (Giulio Cesare)

Soraya Mafi, Cléopâtre (Cleopatra)

Benjamin Williamson, Prolémée (Tolomeo)

Catherine Carby, Cornélie (Cornelia)

Kitty Whately, Sextus (Sesto)

Benjamin Bevan, Achille (Achilla)

Frederick Long, Curio

Mark Howland, Lumières

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Olivia Bell

Olivia has recently graduated as Senior choral Scholar from Queens' College, Cambridge, where she read English and became Culture Editor at the Tab. A freelance soprano, she currently works as a content editor at the Telegraph.

Static but worth the slog: ETO's two-part Giulio Cesare