Posts Tagged ‘holiday’
Dar Maghreb
Great for parties, this Middle Eastern restaurant is a feast for the eyes and the belly. Belly dancers and exotic waiters in traditional Moroccan clothes will transport you to ‘One Thousand and One Arabian Nights’ as you eat sweet lamb in honey sauce or chicken and almond filled filo pastries off ornate ivory and wood tables. Sitting on puffy pillows, eating with your fingers and surrounded by (replica) 15th-century Moorish architecture, it’s hard to believe that when you leave you’ll be pounding the pavement of Sunset Boulevard and not entering into the heavily spiced Casablanca air.
Giulio Cesare
Set in Egypt in 48BC, Handel’s ‘Giulio Cesare’ tells the tale of the period in Julius Caesar’s reign where he meets the seductive Cleopatra and her psychopathic brother Tolomeo. Handel is best known for his concertos and oratorios but operas were his passion. Here his gorgeous arias are performed by renowned counter-tenors David Daniels (Cesare) and Bejun Mehta (Tolomeo), with soprano and Operalia winner Elizabeth Futral as Cleopatra. The staging is directed by Francisco Negrin, with Harry Bicket making his company début conducting this production. In Italian with English supertitles.
