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Handel’s Semele is one of those works that refuses to sit neatly in a box. First staged at Covent Garden in 1744, it was billed as a “new oratorio” to slip past London’s strict Lenten ban on opera.

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Waterperry Opera Festival has appointed John Savournin as artistic director and chief executive. Savournin, who is also a renowned bass-baritone singer, is to helm the Oxford-based opera showcase from ...

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More casting has been announced for the Regents Opera touring version of La Boheme which will open the 2025 Villages Music Festival on 28th June, in the gardens of Limekiln Farm, Chalvington. Italian ...