Regular readers of these reviews may be sick of hearing about my struggle to understand French composer Jean-Philippe Rameau’s genius. All I can say in my defence is that I keep trying, and that there ...

For the past few years the prime advocates of French baroque in the UK have been Les Arts Florissants. Every year William Christie's authentic-performance ensemble has tripped over the channel from ...

Unfolding over a prologue and four entrées, or acts, Rameau’s third opera, Les Indes Galantes, offers a series of five mini-dramas. Turks on an island in the Indian Ocean, Incas in Peru and native ...

It was in June 1952, as the UK was contemplating the dawn of another Elizabethan era, that Paris Opera put on the first modern revival of Rameau's opera-ballet Les Indes Galantes. It has taken another ...

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 ...