"Actor: Bertand Chuberre"

• Charpentier - Medee (Niquet, Le Concert Spirituel) | DVD | (11/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £35.99

  Few 17th-century French operas are as close to pure tragedy as Thomas Corneille's Medea. The story previously told in plays by Euripides Seneca and Pierre Corneille is well known. Medea sorceress and murderess has helped Jason steal the Golden Fleece scattering corpses in her trail to escape the revengeful Acastus. She and Jason have found refuge in Corinth. King Creon gives the fugitives shelter but wants to be rid of the troublesome foreigner Medea; Jason is welcome as a hero who can help Creon in battle. Creon willingly offers Jason the hand of his daughter Creusa in marriage. Abandoned rejected and forced into exile (Medea) wreaks a terrible revenge causing the deaths of Creon and Creusa stabbing her own children to death to spite their loving father Jason.Tragic Opera in 5 Acts