Handel’s Semele: Sleep, why dost thou leave me? and Lay your doubts and fears aside.

Act II. Semele (Rosemary Joshua) wakes with bliss in Juipter’s (John Mark Ainsley) bed, singing Sleep, why dost thou leave me? Semele can hardly believing that she is worthy of catching a god, so Juipter comforts her with the aria Lay your doubts and fears aside. From the 1997 Semele from the English National Opera (ENO), conducted by Harry Bicket.