Lea Desandre - "Rossignols Amoureux" - Hippolyte et Aricie (Rameau) 

Yes, definitely something to listen to with the picture scrolled off the top of the screen. A shame, because Lea Desandre can fit perfectly into almost any scene. It seems that Hippolyte et Aricie brings out the worst in modern producers. The recent Glyndebourne production was far worse than this, with a final scene where H and A were portrayed as ghosts on trolleys in a morgue. I think the miserable producers just can't take on board the idea that the Phaedra plot might have a happy ending, and I can understand that -- but why is their response so childishly hideous?

@@RalphHancock ...and who could forget the chorus singing from an oversized fridge in Act One?

@@R_Jackson I wish I could. H & A will never be quite the same in my memory, permanently spoilt by a producer's muddy footprints.

Absolutely disagree

Ich danke auch! Nürnberg 😀

Comme je suis d’accord avec vous !

What exactly is "woke" about this?

I suggest you see the whole opera, it will make sense (remember created during lock down).

@@MOSS88ify I have seen the whole opera, and no, the production is crassly stupid throughout, doing its best to ruin the opera through the infantile whimsy of a producer whose only concern is to get his dirty fingerprints all over everything. Lockdown is constantly used as an excuse for idiocy. By the way, I've also seen the Glydebourne production of the same opera and would you believe, it's even worse. Poor Léa, singing so wonderfully in such dire circumstances.