Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Rameau’s “Les Indes Galantes” was designed to show the triumph of Enlightenment order over the exotic “other.” Can hip-hop dance make it feel less ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by critic’s notebook The Paris Opera’s new production of “Les Indes Galantes” has freshness and energy that elude its “La Traviata.” By Zachary Woolfe ...

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 ...

In recent years Rameau’s Les Indes Galantes has received high-profile stagings at the Bavarian State Opera and at the Bastille in Paris, the city that first saw this opera-ballet in 1735. At a time ...

This production of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Les Indes galantes at The Grange Festival constitutes the first time that the opera has been fully staged professionally in the United Kingdom. It represents ...

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 ...

Created in 1735, Les Indes Galantes is one of the emblematic works of the French Enlightenment: a ballet héroïque combining music, drama and dance, structured around an allegorical prologue and four ...

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 ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In the prologue to Rameau’s opéra-ballet Les Indes galantes (The Amorous Indies), Hébé, goddess of youth, orders ...