Dramatis Personae
The Minor Characters
The importance of Athamas, Ino, Somnus, and Iris in Handel’s Semele
Compact Guide To The Characters in Handel’s Semele
Get To Know The Characters!
The Score
Handel’s Romantic Harmony in Semele
The most unique harmonic moments in this opera.
and
The Libretto
Handel
vs Congreve
Why is Semele innocent?
Semele in
Giulio Romano’s The Birth of Bacchus
A PowerPoint on Romano’s Bacchus
the Visual Arts
Gustave Moreau’s Jupiter et Sémélé
An interactive guide to Moreau’s iconography
History and
Insoo
Performance History
Performance History of Handel’s Semele
The opera that found its success 200 years later
