PHAEDRA

by Benjamin Britten and Robert Lowell based on Jean Racine’s 1677 play Phèdre “How shall I hide my thick, adulterous passion for this youth, who has rejected me, and knows the truth?” Phaedra staggers under Aphrodite’s heavy curse. Wife to Theseus, she burns for his son Hippolytus. But he rejects her and in her blind […]