Sémiramis

About the show

After poisoning her husband Ninus, Queen Sémiramis rules Babylon while haunted by his ghost. She plans to marry Assur, but falls for Arsace, who is revealed as Ninus’s son Ninias. When Ninias learns his mother’s guilt, he tries to spare her; in a struggle at the mausoleum he fatally wounds her, unknowingly avenging his father.