Semele
A selection of photos from our new Festival 2023 production of Handel's Semele.
Award-winning director Adele Thomas makes her Glyndebourne debut with the Festival’s first-ever staging of Semele.
Photographer: Richard Hubert Smith
Joélle Harvey (Semele) and Stuart Jackson (Jove)
Scene from Part I
Juno (Jennifer Johnston) and Athamas (Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen)
Juno (Jennifer Johnston), Semele (Joélle Harvey) and Ino (Stephanie Wake-Edwards)
Athamas (Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen) and Ino (Stephanie Wake-Edwards)
Semele (Joélle Harvey), (Stephanie Wake-Edwards) and members of the Glyndebourne Chorus and Dancers
Jove (Stuart Jackson)
Somnus (Clive Bayley) and Iris (Samuel Mariño)
Semele (Joélle Harvey)
Ino (Stephanie Wake-Edwards) and Dancers
Juno (Jennifer Johnston), Somnus (Clive Bayley) and Iris (Samuel Mariño)
Semele (Joélle Harvey) and Jove (Stuart Jackson)
Cadmus (Clive Bayley), members of the Glyndebourne Chorus and Dancers
Iris (Samuel Mariño)
Scene from Part I
Ino (Stephanie Wake-Edwards), Cadmus (Clive Bayley) and Athamas (Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen)
Scene from Part I