Horse racing royalty joined a real Pacific Island princess and some of the country s society and political elite in farewelling the matriarch of the country s most prominent horse training dynasty.
If directors will insist on staging Handel oratorios as if they’re operas, it makes sense to pick Semele, which is practically an opera already. Under George II, opera was banned in London theatres during Lent (too exotick, too irrational), so Handel slipped his best material past the authorities by presenting it in concert format, set