A modern staging of Ariodante, Handel’s opera about love and betrayal in the King of Scotland’s court - Alastair Muir One of Handel’s greatest operas, Ariodante, was first performed in 1735 at Covent ...

Confronting the audience at the outset of Oliver Mears’ challenging new production of Handel’s Semele is an unappealing grate cover, the sinister purpose of which is only gradually revealed. The ...

Oliver Mears’ new staging of Semele marks the Royal Opera’s first new production of Handel’s work since 1982. First seen in Paris earlier this year, it relocates the action to a soulless 1960s hotel – ...