1. Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie / van Mechelen, Benoit, Pichon, Pygmalion [DVD]
  2. Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie / van Mechelen, Benoit, Pichon, Pygmalion [DVD]

Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie / van Mechelen, Benoit, Pichon, Pygmalion [DVD]

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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 Phédre for help in wooing the beautiful Aricie, little 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’.



Product Description:


  • Catalog Number: 2110707


  • UPC: 747313570751


  • Label: Naxos


  • Composer: Jean-Philippe Rameau


  • Conductor: Raphaël Pichon


  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Pygmalion, Pygmalion Chorus


  • Performer: Arnaud Richard, Constantin Goubet, Edwin Fardini, Elsa Benoit, Eugénie Lefebvre, Guillaume Gutierrez, Lea Desandre, Martial Pauliat, Reinoud Van Mechelen, Séraphine Cotrez, Stéphane Degout, Sylvie Brunet, Virgile Ancely