Outstanding reviews for Pamela Helen Stephen’s Giulio Cesare

With a triumphant return to Opera North, Pamela Helen Stephen’s performance in the title role of Handel’s Giulio Cesare has been receiving unanimous critical acclaim.

In The Times Richard Morrison describes Pamela’s “audaciously-nuanced delivery of Caesar’s arias” as “a gentle interpretation that suggests not a conqueror but a vulnerable boy afflicted with Hamlet-like intimations of mortality”; this is a performance of “admirable musicality and often heartbreaking poignancy” that “will long live in my memory” (The Times).

Likewise, in The Independent, Anna Picard finds that “Pamela Helen Stephen’s austere, weary Cesare” is sung “with gravity and grace”, whilst in The Stage “Pamela Helen Stephen impresses as a pensive, amorous Caesar”.

Elsewhere, in The Guardian, Alfred Hickling writes that Pamela’s “tone softens delectably as she becomes caught in the crossfire between military and amorous conquest”, “Pamela Helen Stephen convinced as a rough, tough Caesar” (The Observer), and for Hugh Canning in The Sunday Times “Pamela Helen Stephen is always a musical and accomplished Caesar”.

Read all the reviews of Pamela’s performance here.