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

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

Semele at Royal Opera House review: 'deeply disturbing and thought provoking' - 4/5 Oliver Mears’ creates a darker and more ...

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

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 ...

The provocative Handel opera is being staged at the Brooklyn Academy of Music with elements of Chinese and Japanese culture, including a Sumo wrestling match and a 17-ton, 450-year-old Ming temple.

There’s nothing inherently modern about John Eccles “Semele.” Written at the beginning of the 18th century, the Baroque opera narrates an Ancient Greek myth about a mortal protagonist whose ...

With an exquisite English libretto by the poet William Congreve, “Semele” is a delicious mashup of genres, effortlessly melding comedy, sacred oratorio, and Italian operatic tragedy.