If Hippolyte was a musical manifesto, a bold statement of what Rameau wanted opera to be, Castor is a step back to the bad old tragédie lyrique.
129. Castor et Pollux (Rameau)
Tag: ancient greece
111. Venus and Adonis (Blow)
The first opera in English.
110. Persée (Lully)
Quinault petrifies the Greek myths, as if with the Gorgon's head, into bland and predictable court entertainment.
The Opera Scribe 