Hippolyte Et Aricie Blu-Ray

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 it's audiences. This breathtaking spectacle involves prince Hippolyte, who asks his mother-in-law Queen Ph?dre for help in wooing the beautiful Aricie, little knowing that Ph?dre secretly wants Hippolyte for herself. In a single work Rameau re-invented trag?die en musique with dramatic expressiveness and shocking harmonic innovations. It is seen here in an acclaimed Op?ra Comique production that personifies Rameau's assertion that 'music must speak to the soul, it's true aim must be to express thoughts, feelings, and passions'.