First performance 26 October 1786 Librettist François-Benoît Hoffman | Composer Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne | |
Similar Stratonice, Matilde di Shabran, Médée | ||
Phèdre (Phaedra) is an opera by the French composer Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, first performed at Fontainebleau on 26 October 1786. It takes the form of a tragédie lyrique in three acts. The libretto, by François-Benoît Hoffman, is based on the Greek myth of the obsessive love of Phaedra for her stepson Hippolytus.
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