The opera is set in Egypt under the joint rule of Cleopatra and her younger brother Ptolemy in 48 B.C. Julius Caesar has defeated his enemy Pompey but is outraged when Pompey’s ally Ptolemy ...

She helped her husband Brutus see the plot to the very end. In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Portia, shown here in an 1840 engraving, senses her husband Brutus’s distraction and beseeches him to ...

Several ancient Roman texts describe the assassination of Julius Caesar in Rome, at the Curia of Pompey in 44 BC, which was the result of a plot among a group of senators to eliminate the General.