Confronting the audience at the outset of Oliver Mears’ challenging new production of Handel’s Semele is an unappealing grate ...

Oliver Mears’s production offers a grisly interpretation of the doomed love story between Jupiter and a mere mortal ...

Read our review of Handel's *Semele*, directed by Oliver Mears, now in performances at the Royal Opera House to 18 July. Read ...

Poor, slightly silly Semele fries at the sight of lover Jupiter casting off his mortal form, but in Congreve’s and Handel’s ...

Following her debut in Handel’s controversial drama at the Royal Opera House this week, Pretty Yende welcomed Tatler into her ...

Semele has always annoyed the puritans. At the 1744 premiere of Handel’s gorgeously entertaining oratorio, it was religious ...

Forget Arcadian landscapes and Corinthian columns. Oliver Mears’s new production of Handel’s Semele remoulds Greek myth to a ...

Superb Handelian singing and intense character acting light up Handel's Semele, staged as a stark, uncompromising indictment ...

Semele’s crime here is to harbour ambitions above her station, to which end Mears neatly suggests that her self-admiring aria Myself I Shall Adore is more in the nature of a thought experiment ...

Semele’s crime here is to harbour ambitions above her station, to which end Mears neatly suggests that her self-admiring aria Myself I Shall Adore is more in the nature of a thought experiment ...