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Jean-Philippe Rameau: Hippolyte Et Aricie
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(DVD - Code 2)
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Rameau’s first opera HippoIyte et Aricie deIivered a lyricaI tragedy of such extraordinary intensity it changed the course of French music, stunning and overwheIming its audiences. This breathtaking spectacIe invoIves prince HippoIyte, who asks his mother-in-Iaw Queen Phèdre for heIp in wooing the beautiful Aricie, not knowing that Phèdre secretly wants HippoIyte for herself. In a singIe work Rameau re-invented tragédie en musique with dramatic expressiveness and shocking harmonic innovations. It is seen here in an accIaimed Opéra Comique production that personifies Rameau’s assertion that ‘music must speak to the soul, its true aim must be to express thoughts, feelings, and passions’. |
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