Phaedra in Music
Phaedra is also the subject of a number of musical works, including:
- Hippolyte et Aricie, opera (tragédie en musique) by Jean-Philippe Rameau, 1733
- Fedra, opera by Simon Mayr, 1820
- Fedra, opera by Ildebrando Pizzetti, 1909–1912
- she appears as a character in L'abandon d'Ariane, "Opéra-Minute" by Darius Milhaud, 1927
- "Some Velvet Morning", Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood, 1967
- Phaedra, album by Tangerine Dream, 1974
- Phaedra, song cycle by Mikis Theodorakis
- Phaedra, a cantata by Benjamin Britten, 1976
- "Phaedra's Meadow", song on the Blue Rodeo album Are You Ready, 2005
- Phaedra, opera by Hans Werner Henze, 2007
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