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This grand opera is made by me of course visited and described for you in more detail in a review. I am, thanks to the great composition of Ramaeu, very confident that we a great performance is brought to hearing. Unfortunately, we have to wait another two weeks.
Jean-Philippe Rameau was already fifty years old when he 1733 with his first opera Hippolyte et Aricie overnight fame. "My God, There is enough music in this opera to make ten of it, the man will exterminate us all", said his colleague, composer André Campra of Hippolyte et Aricie. The French opera had received since Jean-Baptiste Lully's death in 1687 there to push, Rameau they woke from their slumber. He stood still - as Lully - in the ancient subjects, but it filled with the ideals and themes of the Enlightenment: Castor et Pollux glorifies the selfless friendship and brotherly love of the famous twins.
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Telaire marry Pollux, in truth, love it his twin brother Castor, and he loves them. Pollux as the deep affection for each other implements, he dropped in favor of his brother on Telaire. The following love feast is suddenly interrupted by an attack that has spurred the jealous Phébé, Telaire sister. Castor is killed. Castor and Pollux were the sons of Leda, but have different fathers: Pollux is the son of Jupiter and therefore immortal. He descends into the underworld to retrieve his brother for his people, the Spartans, and Telaire. Castor, however, may live only if Pollux take his place in the underworld. For one day only accepts the sacrifice of his brother Castor, he would once more look Telaire to say goodbye. From these faithful fraternal love Jupiter is so moved that he finally gives also Castor eternal life, and the brothers caught up in the sky - as a constellation of Gemini.
Love conquers death - an eternal dream of mankind. He will not learn here of a couple, but by two brothers in a very special blended family full of delicate feeling entanglements. Rameau's opera is emotional and dramatic of great density. She describes a particularly poignant longing and despair in Rameau's perhaps most famous aria "Tristes apprêts" (Sadly Jewelry) jubilant and happy immortality in the final aria of the work.
text and image - Theater an der Wien
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