Le Desert Et l'Orient: Bajazet, Mithridate Et Autres Etudes Raciniennes

In 1670, in Berenice, the "desert of the East" was no more than a distant dream, a place of exile devoid of form and color. Two years later, it became the setting for two tragedies steeped in violence and death: Bajazet and Mithridate. Thus, "majestic sadness" gives way to love and bloodshed.