Sabine Devieilhe has an audio only recording of this as well but this video certainly is a more in depth version
The 4 acts of this opera are essentially disjoint so complete video of the performance would always be interesting. YouTube only has bits and pieces of it though. There is a site with a 3+hr embedded video which is supposedly the whole thing. It says video not available in my country. Trying a few other origin locations through VPN still doesn't work. Too bad...
By the way, this is from the William Christie/Les Arts Florissants fulll DVD above:
Staging of this one is often described as baroque. Not so much Baroque era but the true sense of the term perla barooca, which is dead on in this case. I've sat through both Christie's video and audio only recording start to finish. The video provides a much better sense of what's really going on. Doesn't have to be the whole thing either. You can already get a pretty good sense from an oratorio type setting without the dance, like this Christie/Les Arts Florissants with Sandrine Piau/Lisandro Abadie:
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The sonics may be the best among all albums of the yesteryears.
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