Les Indes galantes was Rameau's second opera, and has become the most popular of his compositions. It's a tale of love in exotic locales as imagined by a French composer in the court of King Louis XV.

Paris took its own sweet time to warm to Les Indes Galantes. Second of Rameau's operas to be staged (Samson was never performed), this dazzling, improbable fantasy was revised five times between 1735 ...

Director Bintou Dembélé infuses this potentially problematic colonial tale with an irresistible blend of pop culture and inclusivity for an imaginative first staging in the UK Surprising as it sounds, ...

Les Indes Galantes is very much a product of its time. ‘The amorous indies’ of the title is thought to refer, in a 1730s context, to exotic lands: not specifically the Indies, but anywhere suitably ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. What do we do with a piece like Les Indes galantes today? Certainly it was modern for its time, with Rameau’s ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In the prologue to Rameau’s opéra-ballet Les Indes galantes (The Amorous Indies), Hébé, goddess of youth, orders ...

“Les Indes Galantes” (1735) is one of the finest examples of that typically French genre, the opera-ballet–an artistic hybrid that puts dance in a slightly dominant role and surrounds the singers and ...

While the young people of Europe forsake Love to follow Bellone at war, Cupid sets out to shoot his arrows into the rest of the world. A masterpiece of the Enlightenment, Les Indes galantes is ...

It was in June 1952, as the UK was contemplating the dawn of another Elizabethan era, that Paris Opera put on the first modern revival of Rameau's opera-ballet Les Indes Galantes. It has taken another ...