Hippolyte et Aricie

Composer: Rameau, Jean-Philippe

Librettist/Text Author: Parente, Pellegrino

Conductor: Rattle, Simon

Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra

Chorus: Berlin State Opera Chorus

Chorus Master: Wright, Martin

Aricie: Prohaska, Anna

Diane: Dreisig, Elsa

Hippolyte: Mechelen, Reinoud van

Mercure: Smallwood, Michael

Oenone: Queiroz, Adriane

Phedre: Kozena, Magdalena

Pluton: Rose, Peter

Thesee: Orendt, Gyula

Tisiphone: Trekel, Roman

Set Designer: Eliasson, Olafur

Costume Designer: Eliasson, Olafur

Lighting Designer: Freese, Olaf

Lighting Designer: Eliasson, Olafur

Choreographer: Collins, Aletta

Stage Director: Collins, Aletta

Television Director: Morell, Andreas

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Date of Production: 29-11-2018

Venue: Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin

Playing Time: 02:32:52

Catalogue Number: EuroArts6431

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The French Baroque opera Hippolyte et Aricie carries its audience away into a realm of wonders with magnificent dance and choir scenes and the greatest possible multitude of musical forms. Philippe Rameau, a French contemporary of Bach and Handel, revolutionized the music of his time with radically novel, sometimes dissonant harmonics; extraordinarily colourful and complex orchestral movements, multifarious rhythms and dramatic intensity.

The artist Olafur Eliasson, who created the set design for the opera Phaedra and the ballet Tree of Codes is responsible for the set and costume design. In his art, he deconstructs natural phenomena and he rethinks them with the help of color, light, reflections and motion. For Eliasson it is never about the work of art as an autonomous object, but about the interchange with the beholder.