Semele (Handel), 2023

Semele (Handel), 2023

Award-winning director Adele Thomas makes her Glyndebourne debut with the Festival’s first-ever staging of Semele. Period specialist Václav Luks conducts an exciting young cast.

Photo: Richard Hubert Smith

Semele (Handel), 2023
  • 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 ...

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