Review: The Grange Festival’s Giulio Cesare Offers a Fresh Take on Handel

A new version of Handel's 1724 opera Giulio Cesare is always an exciting prospect. The love story between Julius Caesar and Cleopatra, with the backdrop of war with Egypt, political ambition and domestic unrest is ripe for reinterpretation. Indeed, Handel and his librettist the librettist Nicola Francesco Haym, wrote the opera as a tragi-comedy, but David Alden's new production at The Grange Festival piles on the slapstick to such a extent that it undermines some of the excellent vocals in display.

_Originally reported by [BroadwayWorld](https://www.broadwayworld.com/westend/article/Review-GUILIO-CESARE-The-Grange-Festival-20260608)._