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Semele (Handel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Semele (HWV 58) is an opera, or oratorio, in three acts by George Frideric Handel. In the early 1740s, the performance of oratorios at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, represented George Frideric ...
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Opera - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text (called a libretto) and musical score. Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition. Opera incorpo...
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Audio Credit: Semele, George Frideric Handel / Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists / Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner / Semele: Norma Burrowes / Iris: Patrizia Kwella / Juno: Della Jones / Athamas: Timothy Penrose / Jupiter: ... Opera Synopsis: Semele ... Home > Learn > Opera Synopses > Semele...
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Semele - Handel - opera review ... What better sort of character to make the heroine of an opera? Semele was a Theban princess and the only mortal to be the parent of a god, that God none other than Dionysus/Bacchus, offspring of Semele's union with Zeus/Jupiter.
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Substitute "god" for "older man" and you have the Greek myth that's the subject of Handel's opera "Semele." Though set in Thebes and touching on such venerable topics as the interaction between humans and gods and the quest for immortality, the basic plot of "Semele" would delight Rupert Murdoch and his readers.
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www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2008/02/01/handels_opera_semele_gets_a_modern_makeover/
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Pride goeth before a fall, and one would be hard-pressed to find a character as vain as Semele. "MYSELF I shall adore," she shamelessly sings. ...
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G.F.HANDEL - Semele (opera- oratorio); Regis Records, Classical Music Producer ... Armstrong / Watts / Palmer / Diaz / Tear Amor Artis Chorale / John McCarthy / ECO / Johannes Somary ... licensed in Europe only...
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