Castor et Pollux
Music by Jean-Philippe Rameau · premiered 1737 · at Paris Opera
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 theatre in the Palais-Royal in Paris. The librettist was Pierre-Joseph-Justin Bernard, whose reputation as a salon poet it made. This was the third opera by Rameau and his second in the form of the tragédie en musique (if the lost Samson is discounted). Rameau made substantial cuts, alterations and added new material to the opera for its revival in 1754. Experts still dispute which of the two versions is superior. Whatever the case, Castor et Pollux has always been regarded as one of Rameau's finest works.
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About the Composer
Jean-Philippe Rameau is the composer of record for this opera.
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Other Operas by Jean-Philippe Rameau
- Les Boréades (1683)
- Hippolyte et Aricie (1733)
- Les Indes galantes (1735)
- Dardanus (1739)
- La princesse de Navarre (1745)
- Le temple de la Gloire (1745)
- Acante et Céphise (1751)
- La guirlande (1751)