Lully / Dumestre / Abadie: Phaeton - COMPACT DISCS

Lully / Dumestre / Abadie: Phaeton - COMPACT DISCSTitle: Phaeton Artist: Lully Dumestre Abadie Label: Chateau Versailles Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 3770011431151 Genre: Classical Artists Release Date: 2019 09 27 Number of Discs: 3 Additional Details: WITH DVD, 3 PACK This is the story of Phaton, valiant driver of the Sun's chariot, led here by Vincent Dumestre and Benjamin Lazar, armed with a rich partnership of two decades of Lullyist cooperation. Just like at the time, they will make the

Title: Phaeton
Artist: Lully / Dumestre / Abadie
Label: Chateau Versailles
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 3770011431151
Genre: Classical Artists
Release Date: 2019-09-27
Number of Discs: 3
Additional Details: WITH DVD, 3 PACK

This is the story of Phaéton, valiant driver of the Sun's chariot, led here by Vincent Dumestre and Benjamin Lazar, armed with a rich partnership of two decades of Lullyist cooperation. Just like at the time, they will make the Versailles Opera resonate with this production of this flamboyant tragédie lyrique which was first presented in Perm in Russia in 2018. Phaëton is a tragédie en musique in a prologue and five acts by Jean-Baptiste Lully. Philippe Quinault wrote the French libretto after a story from Ovid's Metamorphoses. It can be read as an allegorical depiction of the punishment awaiting those mortals who dare to raise themselves as high as the "sun" (i.e. The Sun King). Phaëton was the first lyric tragedy of Lully and Quinault to receive it's world premiere at the Palace of Versailles, where it was given without stage machinery on or about 6 January 1683. The Paris Opera also performed it at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal (beginning on 27 April), where it was very successful with the general public.

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