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

OPERA America has revealed the five recipients of the 2025 Commissioning Grants from its Opera Grants for Women Composers ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Oliver Mears’ creates a darker and more sinister take on Handel’s opera, with an impressive cast including Pretty Yende in ...

Canalside Community Food’s Summer Festival will take place at the site off Southam Road in Radford Semele on Saturday July 12 ...

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FOR years the gay community has struggled with the cultural stereotypes imposed on it. And one of them was that to be gay means you spend your life in discos, dancing to an ear-destroying beat, with ...