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    Castor et Pollux (Castor and Pollux) is an opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau, first performed on 24 October 1737 by the Académie royale de musique at its...
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    Castor and Pollux (or Polydeuces) are twin half-brothers in Greek and Roman mythology, known together as the Dioscuri or Dioskouroi. Their mother was...
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  • Castor and Pollux may refer to: Castor and Pollux, in Greek and Roman mythology, the twin sons of Lēda and Zeus/Tyndareus, who were transformed into the...
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    The Temple of Castor and Pollux (Italian: Tempio dei Dioscuri) is an ancient temple in the Roman Forum, Rome, Central Italy. It was originally built in...
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    is the star's Bayer designation. The traditional name Pollux refers to the twins Castor and Pollux in Greek and Roman mythology. In 2016, the International...
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    a magnitude fainter than 'β' (beta) Geminorum, Pollux. Hierarchy of orbits in the Castor system Castor is a multiple star system made up of six individual...
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    la Saint Louis (1740) RCT 43 – Hippolyte et Aricie (1733; revised 1742 and 1757) RCT 32 – Castor et Pollux (1737; revised 1754) RCT 35 – Dardanus (1739;...
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  • Rameau appeared in 2013. In 2015 appeared a live recording of Rameau's Castor et Pollux. Also in 2015 Pygmalion performed Dardanus at the Bordeaux Opera in...
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    Castore e Polluce (category Castor and Pollux)
    Innocenzo Frugoni, from Pierre-Joseph Bernard's French text for Rameau's Castor et Pollux. The opera was extravagantly in the French style. As Marita P. McClymonds...
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    recording category, 4ƒ of Télérama (September 2014) Jean-Philippe Rameau: Castor et Pollux. Ensemble Pygmalion (Raphaël Pichon). Released April 2015 by Harmonia...
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    distinguish himself from his rival in 1772: in the reprise of Rameau's Castor et Pollux, he danced with neither mask nor wig (then judged unimaginable) so...
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    palaces. The wedding in 1771 was especially costly. The performance of Castor et Pollux in 1779 when he was visited by his brother-in-law, Joseph II, involved...
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    one of the main characters is very similar to that used in Rameau's Castor et Pollux (1737). Other elements do not follow Gluck's subsequent reforms; for...
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    The Castor and Pollux group (also known as the San Ildefonso Group, after San Ildefonso in Segovia, Spain, the location of the palace of La Granja at...
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  • of opéra-ballet. 1737 Castor et Pollux (Rameau). Initially only a moderate success, when it was revived in 1754 Castor et Pollux was regarded as Rameau's...
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    Musical Offering, Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea, and Rameau's Castor et Pollux. One of his final recordings with the Concentus Musicus Wien was of...
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  • Dandini in Rossini's La Cenerentola. He sang the role of Pollux in Rameau's Castor et Pollux at the Opera Comique in Paris, Valentin in Gounod's Faust...
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  • success, with the exception of his revision of Jean-Philippe Rameau's Castor et Pollux. Candeille's version was premiered at the Paris Opéra on 14 June 1791...
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  • ISBN 9780253222992. Douin, Jean-Luc (May 23, 2006). "'Marie-Antoinette' : une reine rock et rococo". Le Monde (in French). Retrieved January 1, 2016. Spielvogel, Jackson...
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    stayed for eight months, 1737 into 1738. He heard and was impressed by Castor et Pollux, an opera by French composer Jean-Philippe Rameau. From then on, he...
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  • Virgin Records. 1992: Jephté by Michel Pignolet de Montéclair 1993: Castor et Pollux by Jean-Philippe Rameau (a sequel to Hébé/Un Plaisir) 1994: Grands...
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  • Jenkinson Squarepusher 2:10 12. "Tristes apprêts, pâles flambeaux" (from Castor et Pollux RCT 32, Act I, Scene III: Air de Télaïre) Jean Philippe Rameau Agnès...
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    mythology, Castor and Pollux share a bond so strong that when mortal Castor dies, Pollux gives up half of his immortality to be with his brother. Castor and...
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    Bouissou, booklet notes to William Christie's recording of Rameau's Castor et Pollux (Harmonia Mundi, 1993), p. 16. Bouissou (2014), pp. 314 ff. Girdlestone...
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  • opera Castor and Pollux, that was quite successful, with 40 performances in 1754 and 1755. Graham Sadler writes that "It was ... Castor et Pollux that...
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  • l'Harmonie". Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BnF - Gallica). François Lupien Grenet, Paris. Brenac, Jean-Claude. "Castor et Pollux - Rameau". Opera Baroque....
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  • Olivier Award-winning productions of Handel's Partenope, and Rameau’s Castor et Pollux (dir. Barrie Kosky), After Dido (Katie Mitchell’s realisation of Purcell’s...
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  • Sandrine Piau (category Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres)
    various operas by Rameau (Les Indes galantes, Pygmalion/Nélée et Myrthis, Castor et Pollux), in addition to sacred works including Michel Richard Delalande's...
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  • of Wantley Leonardo Leo L'Olimpiade Siface Jean-Philippe Rameau – Castor et Pollux Nicola Antonio Porpora – Lucio Papirio Domenico Sarro – Achille in...
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    galantes, pp. 285–287. "Le samedi 10 mars 1736, pour la Capitation des acteurs et avec un concours prodigieux" ("Mercure de France", as quoted by Thédore de...
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