Then the boss personally dances a can-can with the choir. He is a stout bon vivant, for whom no problem seems unsolvable for a long time and whose voice delivers everything effortlessly and directly, from the deepest baritone to the most filigree countertenor. Michael Spyres aka Jupiter, the king of the gods, who has emerged from deepest hell, has a new lover. But this Semele is a mentally unstable mega bitch in Munich’s Prinzregententheater, who drives the hormone-controlled singer superman into a sexual emergency and thus seals her end. Brenda Rae, instigated by the director Claus Guth, does it magnificently in George Frideric Handel’s “Semele”, singing and playing. This woman is constantly on the verge of a nervous breakdown, sometimes well beyond it.
A triumph: Handel’s “Semele” in Munich – Culture
