 In the 21st century there have been performances conducted by Jane Glover, Ryan Brown, Emmanuelle Haïm, Raphaël Pichon, György Vashegyi and William Christie (this time at Glyndebourne in 2013).At the age of 69 Pellegrin had a long career as an opera librettist behind him so it was unsurprising Rameau should have approached him for his debut, especially given his authorship of "Jephté".Distant models for "Hippoyte et Aricie" were "Hippolytus" by Euripides and "Phaedra" by Seneca, but the most important source was Jean Racine's famous tragedy "Phèdre" (1677).