Rent Handel's Semele (2023)
Revenge is served blazing hot in Handel’s sexiest and most scandalous oratorio.
The cast includes Joélle Harvey (Semele), Hugo Hymas (Jove), Jennifer Johnston (Juno) and Samuel Mariño (Iris), with conductor Václav Luks and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
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Semele - full opera
Semele is engaged, but secretly in love with someone else. Her lover is none other than Jove, King of the Gods. When he carries her off his wife Juno devises a scheme that will ensure a swift and brutal end – both to her husband’s infidelity and to Semele herself.
With a plot full of lusty Gods ...