If there’s one composer who embodies the French musical genius it must surely be Jean-Philippe Rameau, the 250th anniversary of whose death is being marked with a string of performances at this year’s ...

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 ...

Platée (Junon jalouse), Movements: Que ce séjour (Act 1, scene 3) Lafayette Opera Orchestra Ryan Brown, Conductor Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer Jean-Paul Fouchécourt, Tenor Platée (Junon jalouse), ...

Donald Macleod begins three weeks focused on French composers, in honour of this month’s ‘Tour de France’ cycle race. "I have followed the theatre since the age of twelve", so said Rameau to a young ...

This is a musical and visual feast – and a reproach to our opera houses, for not one of these six superb productions (five operas and one sacred motet) comes from the UK, which has yet to embrace ...

Although revered as being among the most influential and important French composers of the 18th century, little of Rameau’s music is heard today. Yet his theories on music continue to exert an ...

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 ...