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Castor et Pollux. (Opera in Review: Toronto).(Opera Review)
; ...exploration of Baroque opera with Rameau's Castor et Pollux. First performed in 1737, though substantially...sweeter sound of tenor Colin Ainsworth's Castor. A student at McGill University, Hopkins...tended to underline the contrast with Castor, whose long and high-written lines were...
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Opera in Concert's 2003 production of Rameau's Castor and Pollux.(New Recordings)
; After recording Opera in Concert's 2003 production of Rameau's Castor and Pollux (scheduled for release in March), the Naxos label is now interested in doing the same for OinC's 2004 production of Handel's Rinaldo...
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Rameau: Castor et Pollux
; RAMEAU: Castor et Pollux (chamber version of 1754) Gerstenhaber...2 CDs). (Harmonia Mundi, dist.) Castor et Pollux, Jean-Philippe Rameau's second tragedie...forty-five players), this "chamber" Castor et Pollux may feel at first like the Baroque...
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Overtures to: Les fêtes de Polymnie; Les Indes galantes; Zaïs; Castor et Pollux; Naïs; Platée; Les fêtes d'Hébé; Zoroastre; Dardanus; Les paladins; Hippolyte et Aricie; Le temple de la gloire; Pygmalion; Acante et Céphise; Les surprises de l'Amour; Les fêtes de l'Hymen et de l'Amour; L'enlèvement d'Adonis
; ...to: Les ftes de Polymnie; Les Indes galantes; Zas; Castor et Pollux; Nas; Plate; Les ftes d'Hb; Zoroastre; Dardanus; Les...orchestral music, and then, finally, you can slip them Castor et Pollux, Les Borades, or Dardanus, and watch the addiction...
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Castor et pollux.(CDs)
; ...forces making the most of Rameau's at times surprising line and coloring. The four principal singers--tenor Colin Ainsworth (Castor), baritone Joshua Hopkins, soprano Monica Whicher (Telaire) and soprano Meredith Hall (Phebe/Hebe)--are dramatically engaging...
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Castor and Pollux. (poem)
; 1. I don't know why I became a fiend and you didn't. Like you, I was born in an old warehouse by the docks, but, unlike you, I have no memory of the mold clinging to my bib as I crammed my mouth full of oyster porridge and dribbled kefir down my chin. Perhaps the road I took did start with my
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Kashagan and Tengiz--Castor and Pollux
; The recently announced super giant Kashagan discovery in the Kazakhstan sector of the North Caspian Sea is the world's largest discovery in three decades. Kashagan, located in shallow water, is an analog to the onshore Tengiz field located approximately 130 to 150 km (85 miles) to the southeast.
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Words: Castor, n.
; Castor, n. THE WAY the mind works. No sooner had Hove councillor Simon...a female colleague during an important planning meeting than Pollux, in Greek myth, came to mind - and suggested a sofa or pepperpot, for Pollux is twin of Castor. In fact, castor is a beaver or rank smell, from Latin, ...
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Wild swan muddies the waters
; ...after all. It was Castor. Like in Castor and Pollux, the Greek gods...don't know why Pollux did this because...But, she said, Castor and Pollux had never mated...for a fight. Pollux can relax. The...her to replace Castor with, bear his...
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Gemini Twins Guided Roman Armies to Victories
; ...twins of ancient Greek myth, Castor and Pollux. The twins were often depicted...chief god of the Greek pantheon, Castor and Pollux had two famous sisters: Clytemnestra...guiding Roman armies to victory. Castor and Pollux also served as guides to ancient...
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