It’s all Greek to me!”Christ Church, HenleyFriday, December 5OPERA Prelude invited singer Ross Cumming to present “It’s all ...

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This month's edition of Gramophone is a very special celebration of the 2025 Gramophone Awards! You can read full coverage of our winners written by our world-leading experts, including the Recording ...

Handel’s 1744 stage work sits somewhere between opera and oratorio, and shocked early audiences with its erotic sensuality. Richard Wigmore seeks out the finest recorded versions George Frideric ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Premiered in 1774, Semele is the latest in the Royal Opera House's series of Handel operas and ...

To get a handle on Handel, go to the Handel Hendrix House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB. Here you will find a wonderful homage to two of the greatest musicians of all time: George Frideric Handel ...

Semele is playing at the Royal Opera House on various dates until 18 July. Beautiful music, glorious singing and a doubtful production combine to create mixed feelings about Handel's Semele at the ...

Pretty Yende sings with her customary exquisite delicacy as Semele - Alastair Muir Semele has always annoyed the puritans. At the 1744 premiere of Handel’s gorgeously entertaining oratorio, it was ...

He’s not the only one: the first of many lightning-bolts – designed by Peter Mumford with Rick Fisher – that flash around Annemarie Woods’s crepusular set illuminate lonely Juno, spurned and seething ...

Oliver Mears’ new staging of Semele marks the Royal Opera’s first new production of Handel’s work since 1982. First seen in Paris earlier this year, it relocates the action to a soulless 1960s hotel – ...

Confronting the audience at the outset of Oliver Mears’ challenging new production of Handel’s Semele is an unappealing grate cover, the sinister purpose of which is only gradually revealed. The ...