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Danielle De Niese Steps Into Role Of Cleopatra At Short Notice In ‘Giulio Cesare’ At The Met Opera

By The Huffington Post News Editors

NEW YORK — Danielle de Niese stepped into the Metropolitan Opera‘s new staging of Handel’s “Giulio Cesare” on a few hours’ notice as if she knew every detail of the production.

That’s because the soprano sang the role of Cleopatra when the David McVicar production premiered at England’s Glyndebourne Festival in 2005 and performed it again when the staging traveled to the Lyric Opera of Chicago in 2007.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at Huffington Post