SEMELE - G. F. Handel
Aria Alba – Opera for All return to this year's Fringe with their exciting retelling of Handel's opera Semele.
Semele is celebrity royalty, her image regularly splashed all over the media and loved by trendsetters.
Following a passionate affair with exalted plastic surgeon Mr Jupiter, she jilts her media royalty fiance, Athamus, at the altar, much to the fury of Mr Jupiter's wife, society doyenne and former cardiologist Dr Juno, as well as Semele's young producer, Cadmus. Juno, by devious means, urges Semele to have plastic surgery; Semele dies on the operating table. Lives are irrevocably changed.
10th-13th - Thursday - Sunday - 7pm, Broughton St Mary's Church, EH3 6NE
Tickets £10/£20 (family) available on the door or from Aria Alba members
Previous productions include The Marriage of Figaro (2012), Dido and Aeneas (2013), The Magic Flute (2014), Aria Goes Office (2015) and Die Fledermaus (2016) for further information check here.
Semele is celebrity royalty, her image regularly splashed all over the media and loved by trendsetters.
Following a passionate affair with exalted plastic surgeon Mr Jupiter, she jilts her media royalty fiance, Athamus, at the altar, much to the fury of Mr Jupiter's wife, society doyenne and former cardiologist Dr Juno, as well as Semele's young producer, Cadmus. Juno, by devious means, urges Semele to have plastic surgery; Semele dies on the operating table. Lives are irrevocably changed.
10th-13th - Thursday - Sunday - 7pm, Broughton St Mary's Church, EH3 6NE
Tickets £10/£20 (family) available on the door or from Aria Alba members
Previous productions include The Marriage of Figaro (2012), Dido and Aeneas (2013), The Magic Flute (2014), Aria Goes Office (2015) and Die Fledermaus (2016) for further information check here.
