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 ...

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.

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 – ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is a rare staging for 18th-century French composer Jean-Philippe Rameau’s colourful, exotic work couched in the characteristic French form of the opéra-ballet, in which dance is as important as ...

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 ...

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“Les Indes Galantes” (1735) is one of the finest examples of that typically French genre, the opera-ballet–an artistic hybrid that puts dance in a slightly dominant role and surrounds the singers and ...