Semele: Eine lyrische Operette von zwei Szenen Add a review

Semele (Semele. Eine lyrische Operette von zwei Szenen.) is a singspiel libretto by Friedrich Schiller, first published in the Musen-Almanach Anthologie auf das Jahr 1782. Schiller edited a pirated edition in 1800, but decided not to republish it. After his death, his friend and patron Christian Gottfried Körner published the revised edition in the fifth volume of the series Theater von Schiller, published by Cotta-Verlag.

Based on volume 3 of Ovid's Metamorphoses and set in a palace in Thebes, it begins with Juno (disguised as Semele's nurse Beroe) persuading the Theban king's daughter Semele to meet her lover Zeus. He gives in to Semele's wish to see his true form, but the sight destroys her.