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A new stage performance of George Frederick Handel&#8217;s <\/em>Semele<em> was given its festival premiere on 23 July. The festival organizers have scheduled a total of 11 reprises, running until the end of August.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:12px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cThe Glyndebourne Festival is a grand and prestigious event, the biggest opera festival in England and one of the most important festivals in Europe. It features almost exclusively artists from the British Isles, and Handel traditionally occupies a very important place in its programme. I deeply appreciate the invitation to conduct one of Handel&#8217;s operas in England, which I received from the festival organisers some four or five years ago, especially as I am one of the few guest artists here. I am very much looking forward to the typically British atmosphere in general. So far, I&#8217;ve only been able to observe it keenly from afar. Apart from the opera house in Glyndebourne, it is also created by the very sophisticated, educated, and demanding British audiences, who, of course, also know how to savour life and enjoy not only quality music, but also, for example, a picnic at this popular English pleasure trip spot. Glyndebourne is inseparable from this summer holiday spirit,\u201d <\/em>explained prior to his departure to England <strong>V\u00e1clav Luks<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:12px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Luks has been working on the new staging in London since the beginning of June, together with the <strong>Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment<\/strong>, London\u2019s period instrument orchestra, Welsh director <strong>Adele Thomas<\/strong>, the performer of the title role, American soprano <strong>Jo\u00e9lle Harvey<\/strong>, British mezzo-soprano <strong>Jennifer Johnston<\/strong> (Juno), British tenor <strong>Stuart Jackson<\/strong> (Jupiter), and other soloists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:12px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/collegium1704.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/SEMELE_170723_photoRichardHubertSmith-3508-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20594\" srcset=\"https:\/\/collegium1704.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/SEMELE_170723_photoRichardHubertSmith-3508-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/collegium1704.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/SEMELE_170723_photoRichardHubertSmith-3508-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/collegium1704.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/SEMELE_170723_photoRichardHubertSmith-3508-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/collegium1704.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/SEMELE_170723_photoRichardHubertSmith-3508-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/collegium1704.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/SEMELE_170723_photoRichardHubertSmith-3508-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/collegium1704.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/SEMELE_170723_photoRichardHubertSmith-3508-75x50.jpg 75w, https:\/\/collegium1704.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/SEMELE_170723_photoRichardHubertSmith-3508-650x433.jpg 650w, https:\/\/collegium1704.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/SEMELE_170723_photoRichardHubertSmith-3508-1000x667.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/collegium1704.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/SEMELE_170723_photoRichardHubertSmith-3508-50x33.jpg 50w, https:\/\/collegium1704.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/SEMELE_170723_photoRichardHubertSmith-3508-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Soprano Jo\u00e9lle Harvey as Semele (right).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:12px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The original audiences of Handel&#8217;s opera <em>Semele<\/em>, a story full of desire and sensuality set to equally passionate music, were in for a shock. Instead of a traditional Handelian biblical drama, they were confronted with a host of lascivious Roman gods and their deadly plots. Far from being a spiritual drama, <em>Semele <\/em>is a provocatively secular tale of seduction, adultery, and revenge. <em>\u201cCombining the sexual intrigue of classical myth with the solo virtuosity of Italian opera and the choral splendour of oratorio, Semele is the best of all worlds, a piece that rewrites the theatrical rules,\u201d<\/em> according to festival organisers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:11px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/collegium1704.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/SEMELE_DR2_200723_photoRichardHubertSmith-5620-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20591\" srcset=\"https:\/\/collegium1704.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/SEMELE_DR2_200723_photoRichardHubertSmith-5620-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/collegium1704.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/SEMELE_DR2_200723_photoRichardHubertSmith-5620-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/collegium1704.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/SEMELE_DR2_200723_photoRichardHubertSmith-5620-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/collegium1704.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/SEMELE_DR2_200723_photoRichardHubertSmith-5620-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/collegium1704.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/SEMELE_DR2_200723_photoRichardHubertSmith-5620-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/collegium1704.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/SEMELE_DR2_200723_photoRichardHubertSmith-5620-75x50.jpg 75w, https:\/\/collegium1704.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/SEMELE_DR2_200723_photoRichardHubertSmith-5620-650x433.jpg 650w, https:\/\/collegium1704.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/SEMELE_DR2_200723_photoRichardHubertSmith-5620-1000x667.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/collegium1704.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/SEMELE_DR2_200723_photoRichardHubertSmith-5620-50x33.jpg 50w, https:\/\/collegium1704.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/SEMELE_DR2_200723_photoRichardHubertSmith-5620-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Soprano Jo\u00e9lle Harvey as Semele.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:12px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Glyndebourne<\/strong> is located on the edge of the South Downs National Park in East Sussex. Landowner and producer <strong>John Christie<\/strong> and his wife, opera singer <strong>Audrey Mildmay<\/strong>, co-founded the festival there in <strong>1934<\/strong>. It is currently held <strong>from May to August<\/strong>, offering a programme of <strong>six operas<\/strong> in the <strong>opera house which holds an audience of 1,200<\/strong>. Glyndebourne also hosts open days for families, exhibitions of artworks and archival materials, and an autumn season of opera performances and concerts that puts rising stars in the spotlight. In addition, there are educational and outreach programmes all year round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:12px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Apart from Handel\u2019s <em>Semele<\/em>, this year\u2019s festival will offer the Glyndebourne premiere performance of <strong>Poulenc\u2019s Dialogues of the Carmelites<\/strong> and, for the first time in more than a decade, <strong>Mozart\u2019s Don Giovanni<\/strong>. The other three productions this year are <strong>Britten\u2019s A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream<\/strong>, <strong>Stravinsky\u2019s The Rake\u2019s Progress<\/strong>, and <strong>Donizetti\u2019s<\/strong> great romantic comedy <strong>The Elixir of Love<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:12px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>photographs: Petra Hajsk\u00e1, Richard Hubert Smith\/Glyndebourne Productions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the second time this year, V\u00e1clav Luks, conductor and artistic director of Collegium 1704, has taken up the leadership of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, London&#8217;s period [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/collegium1704.com\/en\/under-the-baton-of-vaclav-luks-handels-semele-is-to-be-performed-for-the-first-time-at-the-prestigious-glyndebourne-opera-festival\/\" class=\"more-link style1-button\">Read 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