Semele

Struggle between will and reality

In Claus Guth's compelling staging of Semele, George Frideric Handel's masterpiece, that love isn't reality, but a flight into the imagination. Semele creates a parallel world where her deepest desires are fulfilled: an understanding father, a loving husband, and complete self-determination. But the stronger her illusion grows, the further she drifts from reality. As her role as bride is taken over by her sister Ino, she risks losing herself in what might have been.