After 15 years, a Baroque opera is returning to The National Theatre repertoire, and after a full quarter-century The National Theatre will stage a work by Jean-Philippe Rameau, the guru of ...
Deakin University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. French master composer and theorist Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) created the opera Platée for the wedding of Louis, Dauphin ...
Contemporary reimaginings of Baroque opera don’t get much wilder than the current City Opera revival of Rameau’s Platée. But then, the subject matter of this delicious satire was pretty far out when ...
This week, an opera was born. But the birth of Jean-Philippe Rameau's Io has been a long time coming — in fact, it took about 280 years. "We don't know anything about this opera, not the name of the ...