Thanks to the understandable popularity of operas by Mozart, Rossini, Verdi and Puccini, earlier examples of the operatic art can have a hard time attracting today’s public. The perception that ...
In Handel’s most popular opera, “Giulio Cesare,” there’s a little history and a lot of showbiz. At the beginning, Julius Caesar, presumably about 54, arrives in Egypt and is greeted with some ...