For its first-ever production of Handel’s sparkling, irresistibly tuneful “Semele,” Seattle Opera has pulled out all the stops. Aware that this is only the third work by Handel to grace the company’s ...

Semele, HWV 58, Act I: No. 1, Behold! Auspicious Flashes Rise (Priest) Semele, HWV 58, Act I: No. 2, Lucky Omens Bless Our Rites (Chorus of Priests) Semele, HWV 58 ...

Opera Santa Barbara opens the new year with its third company premiere of the season: a 90-minute adaptation of Handel’s comedy “Semele,” set in Hollywood’s silent movie era. Performances take place ...

In the first act of Semele, George Frideric Handel’s 1743 opera in English, Semele leaves her betrothed at the altar for Juno’s husband, Jupiter, and Semele’s sister hooks up with the abandoned fiancé ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Even in 1744 Handel's Semele left its audience nonplussed. The premiere was given in concert during Lent but ...

Semele, HWV 58, Act I Scene 1: Behold! Auspicious Flashes Rise (Live) Semele, HWV 58, Act I Scene 1: Lucky Omens Bless Our Rites (Live) Semele, HWV 58, Act I Scene 1: Daughter, Obey (Live) Semele, HWV ...

You really have to hand it to Handel. It's as if, way back in 1744, he was sufficiently prescient to create the ideal work for the intrepid 27-year-old Toronto organization Opera in Concert, which ...

The sound engineering is poor, the plodding organ continuo in recitatives is tedious, the choir is unfocused and most of the soloists are weak. Martini includes Ino’s aria “See, she blushing turns her ...