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Superb Handelian singing and intense character acting light up Handel’s Semele, staged as a stark, uncompromising indictment of the rich and powerful. 

Adele Thomas makes a good case for Semele's operatic credentials in her production which makes effective nods towards Baroque opera’s devotion to spectacle.

Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, Semele willingly pays the price of death through transformation. 

James Darrah stages Handel's sensual oratorio for Festival O, a feast of wonderful singing. 

Rising like a phoenix, the Alexandra Palace Theatre stages its first opera since its reopening after eighty years of slumber. 

A concert performance of Handel's not-quite-an-opera proves a hit on tour in New York. 

Cecilia Bartoli once again takes Zurich by storm under the guiding hand of Maestro William Christie for a wonderful evening of Handelian fun.

Royal Academy Opera maintains its usual high standards in a production of Handel’s operatic oratorio, a showcase for the singers of the future.

Handel’s Semele is presented as a flashback at the Komische Oper in Berlin. 

On a golden afternoon on the Wormsley estate, not everything on stage necessarily glittered, but there’s plenty of spirit in Annilese Miskimmon's production to entertain.

Is Handel’s Semele an oratorio or an opera? Of course Handel himself called it an oratorio but some suggest it is the English-language opera that he never wrote. 

Roman mythology bumps into Buddhism, not always comfortably, in Zhang Huan’s production of Handel’s Semele at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Handel's sensual tragicomedy comes to dazzling life in Seattle Opera's first-ever staging of Semele, a new production directed by Tomer Zvulun.

When the king of the gods falls head over heels in love with you, seriously bad stuff happens. If you're a Handelian soprano like Semele, however, it happens very tunefully and in a thoroughly pleasant, elegant and cheerful manner for the whole evening.If you're confused as to the difference between opera and oratorio, Semele is the perfect aid to your confusion.

No wonder the 1744 audience was shocked by this “oratorio” which, far from drawing on Biblical themes, displays before us the sexual misdemeanor of the immortal Jove, with a mortal, Semele.

Oratorium oder Oper? Claus Guth macht daraus in München ein mitreißendes Drama voller Anspielungen und Komik.

Au Festival de Froville, la soprano belge rend hommage à Haendel et à la Francesina, au fil d'un concert aussi passionnant historiquement qu'émouvant dans l'interprétation.

À la Royal Academy of Music, Semele de Händel offre une expérience jubilatoire et rafraîchissante. Mise en scène ingénieuse et jeunes chanteurs talentueux sont au menu de cette production.

Cecilia Bartoli zeigt, dass auch eine konzertante Aufführung mithilfe gekonnter Schauspielkunst zu einem überaus überzeugenden Konzerterlebnis werden kann.