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 ...

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 ...

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As part of the Berkeley Early Music Festival’s Fringe events, William Ludtke’s Handel Opera Project presented Handel’s opera Semele on Saturday, June 11, at 2:30 in The First Church of Christ, Science ...

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 ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick By Anthony Tommasini Handel was a savvy career strategist. So what could he have been thinking when he slipped his opera “Semele” onto ...

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, ...

When the opera “Semele” opens Wednesday at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the stage will hold some extra weight: two sumo wrestlers, totaling 700 pounds, and a 17-ton, 450-year-old temple. “Semele,” a ...

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 ...