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 ...

In the heart of the nation's capital, in a courthouse of the U.S. government, one man will stop at nothing to keep his honor, and one will stop at nothing to find the truth.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This week Donald Macleod explores Jean-Philippe Rameau’s operas. Upon his death in 1764 Rameau had more than 30 stage works to his name, a remarkable achievement considering he did not write his first ...

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 ...

“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 ...