TV Standard: NTSC
Color: Colour

Credits:

Beethoven / Manze / Ndr Radiophilharmonie

Description:

Live Rattle & Freiburg Baroque Orchestra Rameau "Ippolito and Arisi" at the Berlin State Opera in November 2018, directed by Aletta Collins and conducted by Simon Rattle, featuring a cast of splendid singers including Kojenner and Prohaska. The film is from "Ippolito et Arisi," a masterpiece of French Baroque opera directed by Aletta Collins and conducted by Simon Rattle. The opera "Ippolito et Arisi," which Rameau wrote for the first time at the age of 50, is a masterpiece in five acts, including an overture and prologue, and contains elements of singing, acting, and dancing, and makes full use of his masterful harmonic and orchestral techniques. The opera was a great success at the time, and its reputation spread throughout Europe, triggering the "Buffon controversy" (whether Italian opera or French opera is superior), which even involved the court. The opera will be directed and choreographed by Aletta Collins, and the lighting design by Olafur Eliasson, internationally acclaimed for his works that manipulate light to create new perceptual experiences for the viewer. The singers include tenor Reinaut van Mechelen, who has toured with such artists as Lezard Florissant, as Ippolito.German soprano Anna Prohaska, who sings beautifully in a variety of period pieces, plays Arisi. Magdalena Kozenaer plays the role of Phèdre, the queen of the Athenian king, Täse. Alissi is the daughter of the Pallas family. Her family is destroyed by Tze and she is taken prisoner. However, Arisi falls in love with Ippolito, the son of Tze, who killed her family. However, Tze's wife, Phèdre, who is also Ippolito's stepmother, falls in love with his son Ippolito. Her love for her son grows with the news of her husband Tze's death, but is turned upside down when she learns that her son Ippolito is in love with Arisi, but then Tze, who is not actually dead, returns. When his wife Phèdre's squire, Enonne, hints that his son Ippolito has seduced his wife Phèdre, Tézet angrily banishes Ippolito. When Phèdre, who is about to die with remorse, tells Tzé the truth, Tzé curses his mistake and decides to go to hell, but Ippolito is alive and reunites with Arisi. King International