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Semele

Music
155 mins
8.0
2007

Description

Opera superstar Cecilia Bartoli offers her first operatic release on DVD in 12 years, and also her first opera in English. Bartoli stars as Semele (a role usually taken by a soprano) in Handel s late opera, which features such well-known arias as Endless pleasure, endless love, Myself I shall adore, and Oh sleep, why dost though leave me? Robert Carsen s stylish modern dress production hints at parallels with the problematic relationship between the late Princess Diana and the British Royal Family. Recorded live at the Zurich Opera House in January, 2007.

Casts:

Cecilia Bartoli
Charles Workman
Birgit Remmert
Liliana Nikiteanu
Anton Charinger
Thomas Michael Allen
Isabel Rey
William Christie

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