Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie

Resource Information

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Label

Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie

Statement of responsibility

Jonathan Kent, stage director ; directed by François Roussillon ; Glyndebourne, François Roussillon et associés, Mezzo, NHK

Title variation

Hippolyte et Aricie

Contributor

• Connolly, Sarah
• Christie, William, (William Lincoln)
• Degout, Stéphane
• Boden, Samuel
• Karg, Christiane
• Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
• Kent, Jonathan
• Nihon Hōsō Kyōkai
• Lis, François
• Lyon, Ed
• Mezzo (Television station : Paris, France)
• Glyndebourne Festival Chorus
• Pasturaud, Julie, 1978-
• Rameau, Jean-Philippe, 1683-1764
• François Roussillon et associés
• Roussillon, François
• Watson, Katherine, (Soprano)
• Glyndebourne Festival Opera

Conductor

• Christie, William, (William Lincoln)

Film director

• Roussillon, François

Instrumentalist

• Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Production company

• François Roussillon et associés
• Nihon Hōsō Kyōkai
• Mezzo (Television station : Paris, France)
• Glyndebourne Festival Opera

Singer

• Connolly, Sarah
• Watson, Katherine, (Soprano)
• Glyndebourne Festival Chorus
• Pasturaud, Julie, 1978-
• Lyon, Ed
• Lis, François
• Karg, Christiane
• Boden, Samuel
• Degout, Stéphane

Stage director

• Kent, Jonathan

Subject

• Operas

Language

• fre
• eng
• fre
• ger
• fre

Summary

Rameau was praised as "the Orpheus of our century" after the premiere of Hippolyte et Aricie. Experience the French composer's groundbreaking tragédie en musique in Jonathan Kent's 2013 Glyndebourne re-interpretation, starring Ed Lyon as Hippolytus, Christiane Karg as Aricia, and Sarah Connolly as Phaedra. Jonathan Kent and William Christie's 2013 Hippolyte et Aricie was Glyndebourne's first-ever French Baroque opera production, and proved to be a smash hit, with critics declaring, "Few nights at the opera will be as rewarding as this one." (The Arts Desk) Kent's incredibly engaging modern staging intertwined with the cast's captivating interpretations of the titular young lovers' story and the masterful performance of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment led by the great William Christie. 1733 saw the Paris premiere of Rameau's first tragédie en musique, a collaboration with Montclair's librettist Abbé Simon-Joseph Pellegrin based on Racine's tragedy Phèdre. The new work proved incredibly provocative, dividing the musical world of mid-18th century Paris into Rameau's supporters (the "ramistes") and the traditionalist supporters of the old order represented by Lully (the "lullistes"). To 18th century French ears, Rameau's music seemed strange, dissonant, and even inhuman, not to mention unplayable. The controversy defined Parisian musical culture for the next 20 years, reviving each time Rameau produced a daring new opera

Cataloging source

FRMTV

Characteristic

videorecording

Language note

Sung in French, with English, French or German subtitles

PerformerNote

Ed Lyon (Hippolytus), Christiane Karg (Aricia), Sarah Connolly (Phaedre), Stéphane Degout (Theseus), François Lis (Pluto, Jupiter, Neptune), Katherine Watson (Diana), Julie Pasturaud (Œnone), Samuel Boden (Mercury) ; Glyndebourne Chorus ; Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment ; William Christie, conductor

Runtime

http://bibfra.me/vocab/marc/unknown

Technique

live action