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    Castor et Pollux (Castor and Pollux) is an opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau, first performed on 24 October 1737 by the Académie royale de musique at its...
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  • Tragédie en musique (French: [tʁaʒedi ɑ̃ myzik], musical tragedy), also known as tragédie lyrique (French: [tʁaʒedi liʁik], lyric tragedy), is a genre...
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    la Saint Louis (1740) RCT 43 – Hippolyte et Aricie (1733; revised 1742 and 1757) RCT 32 – Castor et Pollux (1737; revised 1754) RCT 35 – Dardanus (1739;...
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    one of the main characters is very similar to that used in Rameau's Castor et Pollux (1737). Other elements do not follow Gluck's subsequent reforms; for...
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  • royale de musique, the future Paris Opera) was usually limited to tragédie lyrique or tragédie en musique. For something light, audiences went to the Comédie-Française...
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  • ballet héroïque pastiche Les fêtes lyriques (whose first and third entrées were Francœur and Berton's works, Lindor et Ismène and Érosine, respectively)...
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  • success, with the exception of his revision of Jean-Philippe Rameau's Castor et Pollux. Candeille's version was premiered at the Paris Opéra on 14 June 1791...
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  • Sestina, Claudio Monteverdi, Harmonia Mundi, 1983 Médée H.491, tragédie lyrique en un prologue et cinq actes, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Harmonia Mundi, 1984...
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    Les Boréades is a tragédie lyrique mise en musique, or a lyric tragedy put into music, a type of opera, in five acts by Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)...
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  • 10 March 1736 Paris, Opéra, Palais-Royal (both occasions) 32 Castor et Pollux tragédie en musique prologue and 5 acts Pierre-Joseph-Justin Bernard 24...
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