1st Edition

The Operas of Rameau Genesis, Staging, Reception

340 Pages 60 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

340 Pages 60 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

340 Pages 60 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

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In recent years, interest in Rameau’s operas has grown enormously. These works are no longer regarded as peripheral by performers and audiences but are increasingly staged in the world’s major opera houses and festivals, while the production of first-rate recordings on CD and DVD continues to flourish. Such welcome developments have gone hand in hand with an upsurge in research on Rameau and his... Read more

Part I – Factions and Rivalry

1 A little-known contribution to the Lulliste-Ramiste dispute: Jean Galli Bibiena’s Mémoires et aventures de monsieur de *** (1735)
Francesca Pagani
2 Destouches and Collin de Blamont: two surintendants in the face of the Ramiste threat
Françoise Escande and Benoît Dratwicki
3 Rameau versus Mondonville: the construction of a post-Lullian musical identity in France
Thierry Favier

Part II – Librettos: Gestation, Attributions, Interpretation

4 Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Art d’aimer: music and eroticism in the Age of Enlightenment
Raphaëlle Legrand
5 Re-assessing attributions to Louis de Cahusac of the librettos of Rameau’s Io, Zéphire and Nélée et Mirthis
Thomas Soury
6 The Triumph of Generosity, or ‘Let’s Make an Opera-Ballet’
Roger Savage
7 New light on the genesis of the ill-fated opera Linus by La Bruère and Rameau
Marie Demeilliez

Part III – Borrowings and Creative Renewal

8 A cluster of allusions to Vivaldi’s Le quattro stagioni in Rameau’s ‘Anacréon’ (1757)
Graham Sadler
9 Recreating Rameau: J.-S. Mangot and his role in Parma
Margaret Butler
10 An anonymous Messe des morts on themes by Rameau and Mondonville
Thomas Leconte
11 ‘Objet d’étude et de curiosité’: Candeille’s Castor et Pollux and its audiences, 1791–1815
R. J. Arnold

Part IV – Production, Performance and Criticism

12 The impact of human and material contingencies on artistic creation: the case of Rameau’s Les Indes galantes
Laura Naudeix
13 Staging time and space in Rameau’s tragédies en musique
Lois Rosow
14 Stage sets and music in Rameau’s operas
Rémy-Michel Trotier
15 Do Rameau’s dances ‘impose physical movement’? A collaborative exploration
Rebecca Harris-Warrick and Hubert Hazebroucq
16 Through the Mercure’s lens: mid-eighteenth-century acting styles and vocal aesthetics at the Paris Opéra
Thomas Green

Part V – Discography

17 Rameau’s operas on disc
Patrick Florentin