When Eros meets Thanatos: the bedchamber scenes in Congreve/Eccles’s and Handel/Hamilton’s Semele(s)
When Handel’s opera-oratorio Semele (1744) premiered, Charles Jennens, future author of the Messiah libretto, described it bluntly as an “obscene work”. Admittedly, the sexual images of a text initially written by William Congreve for the composer John Eccles were apt to deter oratorio audiences of...
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Arrêt sur scène / Scene Focus
2022
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| Acceso en liña: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |