Notes: | Mise-en-scène, scenery and costumes, Pier Luigi Pizzi ; lighting for television, director of photography, Marc Jusseaume. Jessye Norman (Phèdre), Rachel Yakar (Aricie), José van Dam (Thésée), John Aler (Hippolyte), Jennifer Smith (Diane), Jules Bastin (Pluton/Jupiter/Neptune), Jean Claude Orliac (Tisiphone), Nancy Argenta (head priestess/a huntress), Enid Hartle (Oenone), Ashley Stafford, Gilles Cachemaille, and Nicolas Robertson (the Fates), Léonard Pezzino (Mercure), Edwige Bourdy (a sailor/a priestess), Elisabeth Priday (L'Amour), with the English Baroque Soloists and the Monteverdi Choir. Danced by New York Baroque Dance Company. Recorded in performance at the Théâtre de l'Archevêché, Aix-en-Provence, France, as part of the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, on July 27, 1983. Sung in French.
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