English Touring Opera: Giulio Cesare at Storyhouse

Kristy Stott, Theatre Editor

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English Touring Opera: Handel Giulio Cesare

Storyhouse, Chester
7 April 2020

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English Touring Opera: Giulio Cesare at Storyhouse
Storyhouse
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Giulio Cesare is one of Handel’s most celebrated operas. With great arias and immense dramatic intensity, this thrilling story of passion and revenge comes to Storyhouse this April.

Following the events surrounding Julia Caesar’s conquest of Egypt and his uneasy alliance and romance with Cleopatra, the English Touring Opera bring an adapted revival of their widely acclaimed 2017 production.

Giulio Cesare will be sung in Italian with English surtitles.

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