Castor et Pollux

Castor et Pollux is a lyric tragedy in five acts and a prologue with music by Jean-Philippe Rameau and a libretto by Gentil-Bernard. It had its premiere at the Palais-Royal on 24 October 1737; it went on to enjoy ten revivals and well over 200 representations by 1784. The prologue was dropped in 1764, but the tragedy itself was mounted more than 300 times by the end of 1785. Pierre Candeille did a new score for Gentil-Bernard’s words in 1791, and this second version of the work was billed on…