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| | Amazon.ca: Zoroastre (1756 Version): Music: Les Arts Rameau / William Christie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | The new version was produced--by coincidence or fate?--in 1756, the year of Mozart's birth, and became a great success. |
 | | The opera is based on the struggle between good and evil, light and darkness, enlightenment and ignorance, personified by Zoroastre, the Persian religious reformer, and Abramane, an ambitious sorcerer, servant of the Evil Spirit. |
 | | The human element (strengthened in the second version) is represented by two princesses, rivals for the Bactrian throne and Zoroastre's love; since one of them is in league with Abramane, the outcome is not in doubt. |
| www.amazon.ca /Zoroastre-Version-Rameau-William-Christie/dp/B00006F1PG (675 words) |
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