(Les) Indes galantes, Movements: Premier Concert Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer Christophe Rousset, Harpsichord (Les) Indes galantes, Movements: Deuxième Concert Christophe Rousset, Harpsichord ...

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, ...

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 ...

Les Indes Galantes presents Jean-Phillipe Rameau very much as an entertainer in this recording taken from performances at the Vienna Konzerthaus last year. An opéra-ballet rather than a tragédie ...

Part madness, part excellence, this production is initially set up like a regular concert. Still, with the addition of one dancer, and then another, the stage soon comes to life with expressive ...

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 ...

Created in 1735, Les Indes Galantes is one of the emblematic works of the French Enlightenment: a ballet héroïque combining music, drama and dance, structured around an allegorical prologue and four ...

“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 ...

With its episodic structure and colonial themes, Rameau’s opera is a tough ask for a contemporary audience. No sooner do you find a foothold in one world, or invest in one set of characters, than you ...

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 ...

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 ...

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