Review: (Toronto) Semele by The Charlebois Post

Jane Archibald (photo credit: Michael Cooper)A Jolly Good Time......and utterly ridiculous and bombasticby Axel Van Chee"No, no I'll take no less" sings Semele to Jove with grim determination in Act 3 of Handel's oratorio/opera Semele, and the director Zhang Huan takes her complaint seriously, answering her pleas with a more-is-more, part documentary, part HBO, part National Geographic production. Playing at the Four…

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