The music of this ballad, which dates to the year of Mandrin's execution, 1755, is excerpted from an opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau, composed in 1733 : Hippolyte et Aricie.
Her professional operatic debut was in two roles in Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie at the 1983 Aix-en-Provence Festival.
Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine | Hippolyte Taine | Hippolyte et Aricie | Hippolyte Bernheim | Louis-Hippolyte LaFontaine | Hippolyte Lefèbvre | Hippolyte François Jaubert | Hippolyte Fizeau | Hippolyte Cloquet | Saint-Hippolyte, Haut-Rhin | Saint-Hippolyte-du-Fort | Saint-Hippolyte | ''Phèdre et Hippolyte'' by Baron Pierre-Narcisse Guérin | Louis-Hippolyte Boileau | Hippolyte Roussel | Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès | Hippolyte Louis Gory | Hippolyte Havel | Hippolyte Girardot | Hippolyte d'Este | Hippolyte de la Charlerie, detail from ''The Members of the Société Libre des Beaux-Arts | Hippolyte Bis | Hippolyte Annex | Hippolyte | François-Hippolyte Barthélémon | Étienne Laurent Joseph Hippolyte Boyer de Fonscolombe | Anne Joseph Hippolyte de Maurès, Comte de Malartic |
It is on the pages of the May 1734 issue of the Mercure de France that the term "Baroque" makes its first attested appearance – used (in pejorative way) in an anonymous, satirical review of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Hippolyte et Aricie.