NZ Opera in partnership with Greenstone TV presents a feature screen production of Handel’s baroque masterpiece, Semele.
Devised and staged as ‘The Wedding of the Year’, Semele was filmed as a live performance in front of an audience at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Auckland. 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.

The Opera production was conceived and directed by New Zealand Opera’s General Director Thomas de Mallet Burgess with Jacqueline Coats, alongside Tracy Grant Lord (Designer) and Jo Kilgour (Lighting designer).