Leonardo García Alarcón

Semele

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Semele is a masterpiece. For how else can one describe a drama whose perfect communion of text and music offers such a power of suggestion? "To hold the mind, the ears, and the eyes in equal enchantment": this recommendation from La Bruyère (Caractères: Les ouvrages de l’esprit) was aimed at the "theater of machines" so adored by the public in the Baroque era. But even without machinery, or even without sets or real staging, Handel's oratorio connects us with total effectiveness to the tragic fate of its heroine.

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