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Giulio Cesare review — exhilarating, star-powered Handel

★★★★★To the victor the spoils. In this exhilarating performance of Handel's Giulio Cesare, those spoils varied wildly. The night began with Julius Caesar landing in Ptolemaic Egypt to be presented with the severed head of Pompey the (no longer) Great — fished out of a Waitrose shopping bag. It ended with Egypt's new ruler — Cleopatra — presented with a queenly tiara by the lovestruck Caesar himself. Egypt was hers and so was he. Louise Alder's Cleopatra, very much a woman on the make, resourcefully fished some pins out of her dress to make sure the new piece of bling stayed on her head. The English Concert is attempting to record every work by Handel and present it free online. This Cesare will