A legendary composer who transformed the face of French opera, Jean-Philippe Rameau was ahead of his time, his theories and works inspiring such succeeding operatic innovators as Gluck and Wagner. Who ...

That's when I decided to play through the entire keyboard works of Jean-Philippe Rameau. I found things I could not believe in terms of the quality and the scope of the expression: I would say ...

But Opera Lafayette’s spectacular, centuries-delayed premiere of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s unfinished one-act opéra-ballet “Io” was anything but a drag. Presented at the Kennedy Center’s ...

when Cohen and the orchestra completed this trio of works premiered in Paris with opera music from baroque composer Jean-Philippe Rameau. While there were only 31 musicians onstage for Mozart's ...

Show more Lucie Skeaping looks at Jean Philippe Rameau's comic masterpiece, the baroque opera Platée. Rameau wrote the opera when he was in his sixties, for an entertainment at a court wedding at ...

Rameau was fifty-three at the time of writing and not long engaged on his course to change the face of French opera. As a result, he was willing to tinker and tweak his works, to get them exactly ...

Rameau clearly enjoyed himself composing this one-of-a-kind comédie lyrique, for the marriage of the Dauphin Louis XV to the Princess Maria Teresa of Spain. Telling the story of the irresistibly ...

Rameau Jean-Philippe Rameau had nothing to do with baseball, but when people in Cooperstown play Rameau, we can't help but think of baseball. Flutist Linda Chesis, gamba player Sarah Cunningham ...

Donald Macleod is joined by Professor Graham Sadler to celebrate the work of one of the greatest figures in French musical history, composer and theorist Jean-Philippe Rameau ...

Even those listeners not ordinarily attracted to Baroque opera will find delights aplenty in Jean-Philippe Rameau’s lyric tragedy, one of the towering theater works of the 18th Century.

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 ...