Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie

Ensemble Pygmalion;
Pichon, Raphaël

NBD 0138 V

Elsa Benoit, Soprano
Sylvie Brunet-Grupposo, Mezzo-soprano
Reinoud van Mechelen, Tenor
Stéphane Degout, Baritone

Jeanne Candel, Stage Director

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 Phèdre for help in wooing the beautiful Aricie, not knowing that Phèdre secretly wants Hippolyte for herself. In a single work Rameau re-invented tragédie en musique with dramatic expressiveness and shocking harmonic innovations. It is seen here in an acclaimed 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’.

Blu-ray

Muzyka klasyczna

Naxos

02-11-2021

730099013864