English Touring Opera has embarked on the autumn tour with its first foray into French baroque opera in Jean-Philippe Rameau’s rarely performed Dardanus, a lyric tragedy in which everything goes wrong ...

Music in Art, Vol. 34, No. 1/2, Music, Body, and Stage: The Iconography of Music Theater and Opera (Spring–Fall 2009), pp. 165-175 (11 pages) Jean-Philippe Rameau's opera Dardanus was performed at the ...

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The story tells of Iphise (Galina Averina, pictured left), the daughter of Phrygian King Teucer (Grant Doyle) who is betrothed to his retainer Anténor (Timothy Nelson), but in love with her father’s ...

Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) is hardly a household name but he is a significant figure in the history of music, being the first to publish a book laying down the principles of tonal harmony in ...

Every other June, music fans flock to the Boston Early Music Festival for a week-long extravaganza of some of the best historically informed performances of music anywhere in the world. Since its ...

In the mid-18th century, Jean-Philippe Rameau’s operas generated heated Parisian debate, if not outright fisticuffs. For better or worse, nobody takes opera that seriously any more, but the French ...

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The Norwegian Chamber Orchestra is back with more from their Tanglewood appearance this summer. We hear a suite from the opera "Dardanus," by Jean-Phillipe Rameau.

Chaque fois que j'ai pu entendre Dardanus (occasion très rare) j'en ai ressenti même plaisir, même admiration, mêmes regrets ; plaisir profond, admiration accrue, comme les regrets aussi, hélas ! Car ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Simon Rattle believes in it; so do John Eliot Gardiner and William Christie. And when the art of Jean- Philippe ...