Hippolyte et Aricie

Composer: Rameau, Jean-Philippe

Librettist/Text Author: Pellegrin, Simon-Joseph

Conductor: Pichon, Raphael

Orchestra: Pygmalion

Chorus: Pygmalion Chorus

Aricie: Benoit, Elsa

Deuxieme Parque / Arcas: Pauliat, Martial

Diane: Lefebvre, Eugenie

Enone: Cotrez, Seraphine

Hippolyte: Mechelen, Reinoud van

Mercure: Gutierrez, Guillaume

Neptune / Pluton: Richard, Arnaud

Phedre: Brunet, Sylvie

Premiere Parque: Goubet, Constantin

Pretresse de Diane / Chasseresse / Matelote / Bergere: Desandre, Lea

Thesee: Degout, Stephane

Tisiphone: Fardini, Edwin

Troisieme Parque: Ancely, Virgile

Set Designer: Navarro, Lisa

Costume Designer: Kieffer, Pauline

Lighting Designer: Godefroy, Cesar

Stage Director: Candel, Jeanne

Television Director: Roussillon, Francois

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Date of Production: 11-2020

Venue: Opera Comique, Paris

Playing Time: 02:20:23

Catalogue Number: 2.110707

UPC: 747313570751

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Rameau's first opera Hippolyte et Aricie delivered a lyrical tragedy of such extraordinary intensity it changed the course of French music, stunning and overwhelming its audiences. This breathtaking spectacle involves prince Hippolyte, who asks his mother-in-law Queen Phedre for help in wooing the beautiful Aricie, not knowing the Phedre secretly wants Hippolyte for herself. In a single work Rameau re-invented tragedie en musique with dramatic expressiveness and shocking harmonic innovations. It is seen here in an acclaimed Opera Comique production that personifies Rameau's assertion that 'music must speak to the sould, it's true aim must be to express thoughts, feelings, and passions'.