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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The spectacle is what’s been hyped about Seattle Opera’s production of Handel’s Semele, but the music is why you shouldn’t miss it. In the title role of a mortal woman whose crush on Jupiter leads to ...

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 ...