This opera triggered a war of styles between its composer and his rival Jean-Baptiste Lully.  
In this work, the huge choral piece "Que ce rivage retentisse" is followed by a prayer to Neptune in "Puissant maître des flots", causing the sea to boil. This work sees the rivers summoned for judgment shortly before the first Trio des Parques, in which they sing "Du Destin le vouloir suprême." A group of hunters sing "O disgrace cruelle" when bewailing an apparent death at a grove of Diana's. This work ends with a shephardess singing "Rossignols amoreux" to celebrate the marriage of the title characters, and the father of one title character sings "Je ne te verrai plus!" when told he can never see his son again. That father had earlier descended to the underworld to retrieve his friend Peirithous, and is tricked by Oenone into believing his son had assaulted his wife. This opera triggered a war of styles between its composer and his rival Jean-Baptiste Lully.  Phaedra falsely accuses the son of Theseus, in, for 10 points, this opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau.
In this work, the huge choral piece "Que ce rivage retentisse" is followed by a prayer to Neptune in "Puissant maître des flots", causing the sea to boil.
{Hippolyte et Aricie} or {Hippolytus} and {Aricia}