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 ...

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 ...

Pittsburgh Opera has postponed its first-ever production of George Frideric Handel’s “Semele” from February to May. The move was made “in response to ongoing covid-19 concerns, including high cases in ...

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 ...

A beautiful young woman, bored and ambitious; a powerful, prestigious man, notoriously philandering; his jealous wife, devious and controlling — a trio worthy of jumpstarting a soap opera, a film or, ...

To see Long Beach Opera’s new production of Handel’s “Semele,” you enter the theater past a display devoted to a big-selling ‘70s pop group. The company performs, after all, in the Richard & Karen ...

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 ...