Zoroastre RCT 62 B

Opéra in five acts - Version from 1756

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Jean-Philippe Rameau

Zoroastre RCT 62 B

Opéra in five acts - Version from 1756

Jean-Philippe Rameau

Zoroastre RCT 62 B

Opéra in five acts - Version from 1756

Instrumentation Soloists, Choir and Orchestra
Composer Jean-Philippe Rameau
Edition Score (Urtext)
Publisher Bärenreiter Verlag
Order no. BA8867-01

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Language: French
Pages: 431
Release: 01.08.2022
Term: 180:00
Dimensions: 260 x 335 mm
Weight: 2184 g
Opus: RCT 62 B
Genre: Classical Music, Classical Music (Baroque), Opera
ISMN: 9790006564163

Richer than ever - Rameau’s 'Zoroastre' in the version of 1756

Rameau’s revised version of his opera 'Zoroastre', which could be heard and seen between 20 January 1756 and 26 March 1757 at the Académie royale de musique, was favourably received. Also from today’s point of view the work profits dramaturgically from many of the changes and seems altogether richer and more tightly woven than the original of 1749. The subject matter of the libretto, derived from Ancient Persian sources, is timeless: the struggle between good and bad. The good is embodied by the religious reformer Zoroastre, a representative of the supreme light being Orosmade. He is opposed by the ambitious magician Abramane who serves Ariman, the spirit of the dark.

The opera includes some of Rameau’s most ecstatic and spiritual musical numbers, such as the episode of sun worship in Act 3 with the sublime 'Hymne à la Lumière', which, for unknown reasons, was not integrated in the revision of 1756. It is therefore included in Appendix 3 of this Bärenreiter edition. Incidentally, with 'Zoroastre' the prologue, which had been customary since the beginnings of French opera in the 1670s, was abandoned. Instead Rameau was the first to introduce an overture which set the scene for the entire drama and thereby anticipated Gluck’s opera reform by many years.

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Préface générale
General Preface
Introduction
Circonstances de composition
Le représentations
Nature des remaniements
Accueil et jugements
Le livret
Notes générales sur l'édition
Remerciements
Introduction
Circumstances of the composition
The performances
The nature of the revisions
Reception and critical judgements
The liberetto
General notes on the edition
Acknowledgements
Livret
Zoroastre
Compléments première version de janvier 1756
Critical Apparatus
Abbreviations
Index of Sources
The State of the Sources
Stemma of Sources
Critical Notes
Annexes
Annexes 1-5
Facsimiles
Plates I-XI

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