Dardanus

Jean-Philippe Rameau

Lyric tragedy in five acts, version of 19 November 1739, Académie Royale de Musique, Paris.
Libretto: Charles-Antoine Leclerc de La Bruyère, based on Ovid’s Metamorphoses

Recorded during performances in April 2015 at the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux, this brightly coloured staging of the first version of Dardanus (1739) was directed by Michel Fau. Raphaël Pichon, the Ensemble Pygmalion and a team of outstanding soloists were unanimously acclaimed by audiences and critics alike.

3 hour 14 minutes – DVD and Blu-ray.
26 August 2016, harmonia mundi.

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Raphaël Pichon,

Michel Fau,

David Belugou,

Joël Fabing,

Karina Gauvin,

Gaëlle Arquez,

Reinoud van Mechelen,

Anténor,

Nahuel di Pierro,

Katherine Watson,

Anne-Marie Beaudette, Armelle Cardot Froeliger, Anne-Emmanuelle Davy, Alice Foccroulle, Marie-Frédérique Girod, Violaine Le Chenadec, Virginie Thomas,

Jean-Cristophe Clair, Stephen Collardelle, Guillaume Gutierrez, Kevin Skelton,

Davy Cornillot, Philippe Froeliger, Randol Rodriguez, Baltazar Zuniga,

Virgile Ancely, Etienne Bazola, Nicolas Boulanger, Renaud Bres, Pierre Virly,

Sophie Gent, Louis Créac’h, Béatrice Linon, Katya Polin, Marie Rouquie, Satomi Watanabe,

Gabriel Grosbard, Alix Boivert, Sandrine Dupé, Cyrielle Eberhardt, Yoko Kawakubo, David Wish,

Jérôme Van Waerbeke, Marta Paramo,

Josèphe Cottet, Kate Goodbehere,

Julien Léonard,

Emilia Gliozzi, Julien Barre, Gulrim Choi, Antoine Touche,

Thomas de Pierrefeu, Elise Christiaens,

Joël Fabing,

Michel Fau,

Jasu Moisio, Lidewei de Sterck, Shai Kribus, Antoine Torunczyk,

Jean Bregnac, Anne Thivierge, Georgia Browne, Morgane Eouzan,

Evolène Kiener, Augustin Humeau, Niels Coppalle, Inga Klaucke,

Sébastien Daucé, Arnaud de Pasquale,

Sylvain Fabre,