1876. Must This Always Be the Consequence?

In Handel's opera
The fair Semele
Knows
The man she loves
To be her god
And in truth
He is the mighty
Jove
She makes him
Swear
To grant her wish
To see him
In all his glory
He afflicted
Realizes
Too late
The consequence
The instant
She, a mortal,
Sees him, Zeus,
Jove, Jupiter
As he really is
She dies
Must this be
What happens
In real life?


The opera's libretto: http://opera.stanford.edu/iu/libretti/semele.htm

Thank you to Alek Shrader and Ji Young Yang for their great Adler Fellows performance tonight.
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