Semele
Opera by George Frideric
Handel
Lisa Saffer as Semele
Scott Ramsay as Jupiter
Margaret Lattimore
as Juno
Conducted by Martin Pearlman
with Boston Baroque
Directed by Sam Helfrich
Scenic Design by Andromache
Chalfont
(Opera
Boston)
February 1-5, 2008
Friday and Tuesday at 7:30pm
Sunday at 3pm
Pre-concert lectures one
hour prior
$29-$114 Plus Fees
After the phenomenal success
of 2005's sold out Alceste, Opera Boston again teams with Martin
Pearlman and Boston Baroque to stage Handel's "secular oratorio" about
a young woman desperate for immortality and Jupiter's love -- at any cost.
William Congreve wrote the witty libretto, which also bears the mock-heroic
stamp of later contributor Alexander Pope. Sung in English with projected
surtitles. |
