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Semele was staged on four occasions ( 1959, 1961, 1964 and 1975 ) by the Handel Opera Society under Charles Farncombe, and it entered the repertory of the English National Opera ( then Sadler ’ s Wells Opera ) in 1970.

The opera returned in 1982 — after a 238-year hiatus — to Covent Garden ( the Royal Opera House ), conducted, as at Sadler ’ s Wells, by Charles Mackerras.