Giulio Cesare

There is much good singing to be heard in this production of what may be Handels greatest opera and some that is truly spectacular Most of the latter comes fittingly from the two principals As Cleopatra Yvonne Kenny the admirable Ilia in the 1983 DVD of Mozarts Idomeneo gives perhaps the finest performance of her distinguished career encompassing every aspect of her music from seduction to despair by way of satirical wit without ever and I mean this literally losing countenance