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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.

Les Indes Galantes is very much a product of its time. ‘The amorous indies’ of the title is thought to refer, in a 1730s context, to exotic lands: not specifically the Indies, but anywhere suitably ...

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 ...

Antoine Plante, artistic director of Mercury – The Orchestra Redefined, shares tracks from the ensemble’s recently-released recording of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s exotic opera-ballet Les indes galantes – ...

Paris took its own sweet time to warm to Les Indes Galantes. Second of Rameau's operas to be staged (Samson was never performed), this dazzling, improbable fantasy was revised five times between 1735 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. What do we do with a piece like Les Indes galantes today? Certainly it was modern for its time, with Rameau’s ...

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 ...

Part madness, part excellence, this production is initially set up like a regular concert. Still, with the addition of one dancer, and then another, the stage soon comes to life with expressive ...

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 ...