The Wicker Woman, or Semele in Scrubland: Adele Thomas's unsexy Handel staging opens at Glyndebourne.

There's some decent singing: Stephanie Wake-Edwards and Ayreh Nussbaum Cohen give the best performances as Ino and Athamas.

My Guardian review:-

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jul/24/semele-review-glyndebourne-handel-joelle-harvey-adele-thomas

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Semele review – outstanding mezzos enliven dour take on Handel’s tale of desire

Joélle Harvey and Jennifer Johnston are ravishing, and the chorus sensational, but Adele Thomas’s staging feels neither funny nor erotic enough for what is essentially a barbed Restoration comedy

The Guardian