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.
Jean-Philippe Rameau composed his opera-ballet Les Indes Galantes in 1735 for a performance at the Palais-Royal in Paris. The title translates as “The Gallant” or “Amorous Indies”. After a prologue, ...
on this – quite rightly: opéra-ballet was meant to be expensive and lavish. But sophomoric and borderline racist? Unusually for this bran-tub genre – several different stories danced and sung over one ...
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