Semele and The Jazz Age
The Score & The Libretto
A Modernist Version of Handel’s Orchestration
A Virtual Reality Site for Semele and the Jazz Age
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A Libretto for a Semele Set in 1920s Hollywood
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Characters & Costumes
Costume Designs and Character Sketches for a 1920s Semele
Character Guide to a 1920s Semele
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Semele
Dramatis Personae
A Compact Guide to the Characters in Semele
The Minor Characters in Handel’s Semele
The Score & the Libretto
Handel versus Congreve
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Handel’s Romantic Harmony
Religion & Myth
Pagan and Christian Syncretism in the Myth of Semele
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Pride and Hubris Among Mortals and Immortals
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Semele in the Visual Arts
Giulio Romano’s The Birth of Bacchus
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Images of Characters from the Semele Myth—Antiquity to Modernity
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Gustave Moreau’s Jupiter et Sémélé
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History & Performance History
The Performance History of Handel’s Semele
The Historical Context of Congreve’s Semele
The Jazz Age
New Media & Social Change
Charlie Chaplin and Class Warfare
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Flappers & Freedom
The New American Woman
Women’s Suffrage
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Jazz & Booze
The Road to Prohibition
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Jazz and Prohibition
The Lost Generation as the Children of Bacchus
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