Event listing: Giulio Cesare | Leeds Grand Theatre | Sat 14 Jan 2012 at 19:00

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Sandra Bowdler, 23rd February

From emperors and empresses to nymphs, gods and giants by way of faithful wives, sorceresses, knights, dastardly noblemen and dazzling coloratura arias, here's your guide to the master showman of Baroque opera.

See Giulio Cesare in Egitto, (Julius Caesar in Egypt) HWV 17 in

Berlin, Germany Alresford, United Kingdom Leipzig, Germany Florence, Italy The Hague, Netherlands

Opera North's Giulio Cesare is a sparkling success

Laura Kate Wilson, 14th January

The Roman emperor Julius Caesar’s entanglement with the Egyptian queen Cleopatra is one of the best-known love stories of all time, and the operatic re-telling by George Frideric Handel, with its incredible music and universal themes of war, passion and politics, is experiencing a resurgence.

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