Jean-Philippe Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie

Sir Simon Rattle Freiburger Barockorchester, Staatsopernchor Anna Prohaska, Magdalena Kožená, Elsa Dreisig, Reinoud Van Mechelen, Gyula Orendt, Peter Rose, Roman Trekel This French Baroque opera will carry you away into a realm of wonders with magnificent dance and choir scenes and the greatest possible multitude of musical forms. Music composed by Jean-Philippe Rameau, a French contemporary of Bach and Handel, who revolutionized the music of his time with radically novel, sometimes dissonant harmonics, ex