Castor et Pollux
Castor et Pollux (Castor and Pollux). Opera in prol. and 5 acts by Rameau to lib. by Pierre-Joseph Bernard. Prod. Paris 1737 (rev. without prol. and with new Act I 1754); Glasgow 1929; NY 1937. Operas on same subject by Bianchi (Florence, 1779) and Vogler (Munich, 1787).
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