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Hippolyte et Aricie — Rameau’s first tragédie en musique, first performed in Paris in 1733
A tragédie en musique in a prologue and five acts, on a libretto by the abbé Pellegrin drawn from Racine’s Phèdre and Euripides’ Hippolytus, first performed at the Académie royale de musique, in its theatre at the Palais-Royal, by a fifty-year-old composer who had written neither opera nor ballet before. It divided the public between Lully’s partisans and the « ramistes », and was revised for the revival of 1742. (Editorial synthesis)
Hippolyte et Aricie was first performed on 1 October 1733. (source: Encyclopædia Universalis)
Recorded author of Hippolyte et Aricie: Rameau.
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