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 ...

In the first act of Semele, George Frideric Handel’s 1743 opera in English, Semele leaves her betrothed at the altar for Juno’s husband, Jupiter, and Semele’s sister hooks up with the abandoned fiancé ...

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 ...

The Dutch National Opera will perform Semele next year. Performances will run 17 – 29 January 2026. Semele has never before ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...