Opus Arte's video: Handel: Semele New Zealand Opera

Witness The Wedding of the Year, filmed at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Auckland, New Zealand. Handel’s Baroque masterpiece Semele is an exciting mix of opera and oratorio. Unlike his much more famous Messiah, this work scandalised audiences when first performed at Covent Garden theatre in 1774. 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… Semele - Emma Pearson Jupiter/Apollo - Amitai Pati Juno/Ino - Sarah Castle Cadmus/Somnus - Paul Whelan Athamas - Stephen Diaz Iris - Chelsea Dolman Priest - Sashe Angelovski New Zealand Opera Chorus Holy Trinity Cathedral Choir Chorus Master - Andrew Crooks New Zealand Opera Baroque Orchestra Conductor - Peter Walls Concert Master - Peter Clark Directed by Thomas De Mallet Burgess and Jacqueline Coats Designed by Tracy Grant Lord Lighting Designed by Jo Kilgour Directed for the Screen by Rebecca Tansley Catalogue numbers: OA1362D (DVD) / OABD7309D (BLU-RAY) Release Date - January 2023 More information here: DVD - https://naxos.lnk.to/OA1362D Blu-Ray - https://naxos.lnk.to/OABD7309D