A team of faculty, students, and alumni from the UNLV School of Music joined Vegas City Opera and the Las Vegas Sinfonietta for a performance of Handel's Semele. Handel composed this work as an oratorio, to be performed in a concert format, but its story of seduction, betrayal, and tragedy has proved popular throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in staged operatic performances. The Las Vegas production of this work cleverly updated the setting and stakes, adapting the mythological story into a morality tale about the dangers of social media obsessions of the present. 

Participants in the performance included School of Music faculty Taras Krysa and Jonathan Rhodes Lee, students Tyler Gordon, Jaeyoung Jo, and Lana Vladić, and alumni Chase Gutierrez, Jairo Pulido, Kurt Sedlmeier, and Joan Eubank Sobel.