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| Composer | Handel, George Frideric (1685-1759) |
| Period | Baroque |
| Work type | Opera / Oratorio |
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AmsterdamSemele
Handel: Semele
Emmanuelle Haïm; Claus Guth; Dutch National Opera; Michael Levine; Gesine Völlm; Michael Bauer; Le Concert d'Astrée
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In Mears’ bleak Royal Opera Semele, Pretty Yende stands out
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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.
Joélle Harvey is outstanding in Glyndebourne's incendiary Semele
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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.
Kosky's Semele revived in style at the Komische Oper Berlin
Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, Semele willingly pays the price of death through transformation.
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