Recounted and dramatized in 5th century BCE playwright Euripides’ Hippolytus, the titular character is a young man who loves to hunt and has no interest in marriage. This goes against cultural ...

Defined as a tragédie lyrique, its libretto, by François-Benoît Hoffman, is based on Racine’s play of 1677, which in turn had been drawn from Euripides’ “Hippolytus.” Its central theme of a love that ...