Giulio Cesare; Wye Valley chamber music festival; Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Karabits – review

Grand, Leeds; Hereford, St Briavels, etc; Anvil, BasingstokeShort, squat, silly, a bad actress, with a doughy, cross face and a "figure not advantageous for the stage": this was Horace Walpole's yobbish description of the star soprano who created the role of Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt in Handel's Giulio Cesare in Egitto (1724). Matters have improved, not just in the etiquette of criticism. Sarah Tynan, making her Opera North debut in Tim Albery's attractive new staging, is slim, pretty, good at...

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