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title: "Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie"
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# Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie

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Starring Anne-Catherine Gillet, Jaël Azzaretti, Stéphane Degout.

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## Customer Reviews

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    At last... a Rameau I can love
  

*by D***N on Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2015*

I have a whole shelf for DVDs of Rameau operas I've watched once. Often they are beautifully conducted by the gifted William Christie but I cannot abide watching them again. I listen to them but will not view. Why? Because they are the victims of "Regie Konzept (Director's Concept) Disease." Beautiful music is playing but some gross distorted bodies are doing "modern concept dance".  Squirms and squiggles abound as their bodies are stretched over stumps and lumps and their eyes widen in pseudo-religious ecstasy. There's Zoroastre, Castor et Pollux, Les Indes Galante etc etc. (I also have a bunch of Handel operas afflicted with a similar disease). Trying to convey the art and meaning of the composer and librettist's work appropriate to the spirit of the composition seems to be an anathema to these "Regies" Ah! but now along comes our savior Emmanuelle Haim. She and her crew strive to give us this great art in it's native habitat; in it's own reality. Cheers! all 'round.This opera is a monumental "Tragedie en Musique". It is Rameau's first (1733) and probably greatest. It is the worthy product of Rameau and Abbe Pellegrin's adaptation of the Phaedre tragic love story found in Racine's "Phedre", Euripides "Hippolytus" and Seneca's "Phaedre". Early performances of this opera were troubled by the cast finding the work too difficult to perform even after several cuts and alterations. It never reached the popularity of later Rameau works such as Castor et Pollux, Les Indes Galante  or Les Boreades. From 1908 on revivals of the complete Hippolyte et Aricie have gradually attained and affirmed the value of this monumental work. Ms Haim has used the stilted style of sung declamation to emphasize the tragedy of Theseas and  Phaedra. The act three monologue of Phaedra  as she prays to Venus about her guilty love for her step-son Hippolytus  is "Cruelle mere des amours" with it's subtle changes of harmony and tempo is one of the most enchanting pieces in all Baroque opera that I know.The cast is uniformly talented and appropriate to the roles. The sets are gorgeous, subtle and have the feeling of the world of Rameau and Abbe Pellegrin. Ms. Haim is a genius in bringing together these talented instrumentalists, dancers, singers.  set designers, costumers etc to produce a magnificent, successful and beautiful performance. I think Rameau would have been pleased.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Very Engaging Performance
  

*by C***L on Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2021*

Act II in Hades alone is worth 5 stars.  This is one of the best productions I have seen on dvd.  I’m only through the first disc but so far everything seems to be flawless.  I’ve been a fan of Haim ever since watching the Poppea with Sonya Yoncheva (the one you can purchase).  The music is played at a top notch level.  As I was getting settled in my space I started the disc and before even sitting down I was immersed as the opening notes played and the initial images and credits appeared.  This is a traditional staging.  It is not boring at all.  Like any opera, you have to sit back and take it all in.  I am watching with English subtitles, but the quality of the music and atmosphere of the staging is enough to hold one’s attention even without knowing the story.  I love the upside down fake heads that become right side up real heads.  You really feel like the character in Hades got himself into a bad predicament.

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    A Really Good DVD of a Superlative Performance
  

*by K***Z on Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2015*

I saw this production at the Palais Garnier, I left thinking that I had seen a major accomplishment. I often see performances that are really good, *but* there is some aspect that was either annoying or just not up to the quality of the other aspects. This is a performance for which there is no "but…". It was superlative. The DVD is really good. Had I not actually seen the production on stage, I would probably think that the DVD is superlative. It just doesn't quite capture the full richness of the performance. There was just too much happening on stage to be captured by any single sequence of camera shots. The staging was spectacular and sensitive to the period. The orchestra and cast were commensurate. Few baroque performances on DVD attain this quality.I don't generally like comparing performances unless to compare particular strengths. However, current trends in baroque opera are acutely painful. I saw the original Christie production of this opera when it was at BAM, which was, if recorded, never released. It was sensitive to its period, while executing a large number of contemporary visual jokes (Mercury arrived with a balloon bouquet, Neptune's train was made of seaweed and continued to cross the stage long after Neptune had left, and so forth.) I enjoyed it immensely. The CD from that production is still unparalleled, especially for the trio of les parques. However, Christie's current DVD of this opera may well have set a new standard in uglification. Don't support ugly opera, get this one instead.

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