Theseus, later Phaedra’s husband (and, lest we forget, the father of Hippolytus), is sent to kill the beast. Ariadne falls deeply in love with Theseus and agrees to help him, but once the beast ...

Benjamin Britten’s Phaedra – a work he called a cantata but which is more ... Each mound in turn triggers a memory – the dead Minotaur (slaughtered by her husband Theseus), her wedding shoes, and a ...