David McVicar’s inventive production—a triumph at the Glyndebourne Festival in 2005—comes to the Met. The Guardian praised the director’s "witty, sexy, and tragic post-colonial framing of Handel’s Caesar and Cleopatra tale," which incorporates elements of Baroque theater and 19th-century British imperialism to illuminate the opera’s ideas of love, war, and empire building. Live in HD: April 27
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