Semele Handel’s 1743 opera Semele-based on the myth of a mortal seduced by Jupiter,who pays a price when she ambitiously asks to see the god in his full splendor-is proving catnip to Seattle Opera’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Oliver Mears’ sharp 1960s reimagining of Handel’s ‘bawdy opera’ explores psychological trauma, but offers little of the work’s wit, warmth or joy Pretty Yende & Ben Bliss (Photo: The Royal Opera ©2025 ...

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, ...

"Semele," written by Handel in the 18th century, set no small scandal among its baroque audience for both its musical structure and basic themes of carnal lust and Grecian morality. Zhang Huan's ...