Name: Semele
Start: 2020-10-13T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2020-11-06T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Holy Trinity Cathedral

Admin

Organization

Singer

Tenor

Amitai Pati

Jupiter

Apollo

Bass

Paul Whelan

Cadmus

Somnus

Soprano

Sarah Castle

Juno

Mezzo-soprano

Contralto

Stephen Diaz

Athamas

Chelsea Dolman

Iris

Conductor

Peter Walls

Stage director

Thomas de Mallet Burgess / Jac Coats

Set designer

Tracy Grant Lord

Lighting designer

Jo Kilgour

Emma Pearson

Semele

New Zealand Opera

Sashe Angelovski

High Priest

Chorus master

Andrew Crooks

English

Auckland

New Zealand

Holy Trinity Cathedral

Drawn from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, the sensual story explores a love triangle between Jupiter, King of the Gods, his wife, the goddess Juno, and his lover, the mortal princess Semele. Handel’s Baroque masterpiece Semele is an exciting mix of opera and oratorio.

Semele Händel

Public

Approved

Production booklet

Further reading