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Mezzo-soprano vocalist Cecilia Bartoli toplines this 2007 rendition of Georg Friedrich Handel's 1744 opera Semele, mounted live at the Zurich Opera House. In addition to Bartoli's performance as the title character, the production co-stars Charles Workman as Jupiter, Birgit Remmert as Juno, Liliana Nikiteanu as Ino and Anton Scharinger as Cadmus and Somnus. Robert Carsen produced for the stage, William Christie handles musical direction, and Patrick Kinmonth designed the sets and costumes. The Orchestra La Scintilla and the Chorus of the Opernhaus Zurich provide musical accompaniment, with Ernst Raffelsberger and Jürgen Hämmerli as chorus masters.