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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It was nearly 200 years between the time George Frideric Handel wrote his 1743 opera “Semele” and the work’s first, full public staging in Cambridge, England. Handel certainly had something to do with ...

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 ...

If the Canadian Opera Company’s production of Handel’s Semele that played last week at the Brooklyn Academy of Music was hardly outstanding in any aspect of operatic presentation, it did at least ...