Organization

Stage director

Claus Guth

Set designer

Michael Levine

Costume designer

Gesine Völlm

Lighting designer

Michael Bauer

Dramaturge

Christopher Wasmuth

Yvonne Gebauer

Singer

Soprano

Brenda Rae

Semele

Tenor

Michael Spyres

Jupiter

Jonas Hacker

Apollo

Contralto

Jakub Józef Orliński

Athamas

Emily D'Angelo

Juno

Bass

Philippe Sly

Somnus

Jessica Niles

Iris

Cadmus

Mezzo-soprano

Nadezhda Karyazina

Milan Siljanov

High Priest

Bayerische Staatsoper

Conductor

Gianluca Capuano

Chorus master

Sonja Lachenmayr

Orchestra

Bayerisches Staatsorchester

The Metropolitan Opera

English

Munich

Germany

Prinzregententheater

Public

Private

German

Approved

Semele is the third production by director Claus Guth at the Bavarian State Opera. In 2007 he directed Giuseppe Verdi's Luisa Miller , in 2022 Bluthaus by Georg Friedrich Haas. Guth lives in Munich, where he studied philosophy, German and theater studies at the LMU Munich, as well as theater and opera direction at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich. Yvonne Gebauer (dramaturgy) and Guth have been working together for many years, as has Gesine Völlm (costumes). The first collaboration between Guth and set designer Michael Levine, Jenůfaby Leoš Janáček, premiered in 2021 at the Royal Opera House London. Michael Bauer (Light) and Guth have known each other since their student days at the Bavarian State Opera. Guth's staging of the baroque opera Dido and Aeneas , his diploma work, premiered in 1991 in the Munich Reithalle. Handel and Guth have had a tradition since then: Radamisto Opernhaus Zürich 2004, Rinaldo Opernhaus Zürich 2008, Messiah Theater an der Wien 2009, Jephta De Nationale Opera Amsterdam 2016, Rodelinda Teatro Real Madrid 2017, Saul Theater an der Wien 2018 and Orlando Theater an der Wien 2019 .

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Ensemble

Co-Producer