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Sémélé, Handel

Crédit : Simon Gosselin

Smashed by Jupiter, "Sémélé" rises from the ashes at Lille Opera

08/10/2022 - Télérama - Sophie Bourdais

When the curtain rises, the drama has already been played out: all that remains of the beautiful, loving, naive Semele, the mythological figure and heroine of Georg Friedrich Handel’s oratorio, is a pile of smouldering ashes. Out of it suddenly emerges a dazed, incredulous young woman in a nightie. Locked in the vast room where she died, Sémélé, or rather her ghost, has no choice but to replay the events that led to her untimely death. Her forced betrothal