{"id":69571,"date":"2018-12-01T14:59:05","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T13:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/12\/01\/the-week-in-classical-hippolyte-et-aricie-candide-review-british-stars-in-berlin\/"},"modified":"2018-12-01T14:59:05","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T13:59:05","slug":"the-week-in-classical-hippolyte-et-aricie-candide-review-british-stars-in-berlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=69571","title":{"rendered":"The week in classical: Hippolyte et Aricie; Candide review \u2013 British stars in Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Staatsoper Unter den Linden; Komische Oper, BerlinSimon Rattle and a top cast cook up a storm in Rameau\u2019s Greek tragedy, while Allan Clayton dazzles in Barrie Kosky\u2019s riotous production of CandideIn Jean-Philippe Rameau\u2019s Hippolyte et Aricie, an older woman falls for a younger man. He spurns her and loves someone else. Based on Racine and Euripides, it\u2019s a shattering tale. At every opportunity Rameau (1683-1764), that great free-spirit composer of the French Enlightenment, fills his music with weather \u2013 tempests, thunderclaps, earthquakes \u2013 reflecting the storm of human emotions on stage. For the Berlin State Opera\u2019s (Staatsoper) first ever staging of a Rameau work, conducted by his tireless champion, Simon Rattle, the company chose a designer obsessed with the elements: the Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson, whose The Weather Project had a sunburst success back in 2003-4 as one of Tate Modern\u2019s early Turbine Hall commissions.The opera was the highlight of the Staatsoper\u2019s first baroque festival, which runs until mid-December. A superb revival of Monteverdi\u2019s L\u2019Orfeo and a programme of madrigals in the Pierre Boulez Saal by the peerless Voces Suaves also stood out in the opening weekend. Rameau was the draw. In the grand structure of French opera of this period \u2013 five acts with dance and spectacle \u2013 the allegorical prologue should be extravagant. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2018\/dec\/01\/hippolyte-et-aricie-staatsoper-berlin-simon-rattle-review-candide-komische-opera-barrie-koskie\" target=\"_blank\">The week in classical: Hippolyte et Aricie; Candide review \u2013 British stars in Berlin<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staatsoper Unter den Linden; Komische Oper, BerlinSimon Rattle and a top cast cook up a storm in Rameau\u2019s Greek tragedy, while Allan Clayton dazzles in Barrie Kosky\u2019s riotous production of CandideIn Jean-Philippe Rameau\u2019s Hippolyte et Aricie, an older woman falls for a younger man. He spurns her and loves someone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}