NEW YORK — When it had its premiere in Paris in 1733, Rameau’s “Hippolyte et Aricie” set off a war in French opera. You had to choose sides: Were you an old-fogey “lulliste” — a partisan of Lully, the ...

The Norwegian Chamber Orchestra and conductor Terje (TAIR-yeh) Tonnesen play a suite from the opera 'Dardanus' by Jean-Philippe Rameau.

The Aix Festival is presenting a new version of “Samson,” a never-performed work by Rameau and Voltaire, two of France’s most important cultural figures. By Zachary Woolfe Listen to our critics’ ...

Aix-en-Provence (AFP) – "J'ai voulu redonner vie à un extraordinaire rendez-vous manqué de l'histoire de la musique", raconte le chef d'orchestre Raphaël Pichon qui présente jeudi "Samson", un opéra ...

On Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Samson at the Aix-en-Provence Festival. In terms of the drama, one sequence stood out. Toward the end, a distraught Delilah commits suicide out of remorse, an idea taken from ...

A longtime selling point for the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra has been that it usually performs music written for an ensemble of approximately its size. For example, the symphonies of Mozart and Joseph ...

Rameau’s operas have never had much of a look-in this side of the Channel compared to those of Handel, and given that the English National Opera has probably done more than any other opera company to ...

For so compact a drama (just four characters, including the Statue) the emotional stakes are surprisingly high, largely owing to an extraordinarily virtuosic sequence of arias and ariosos for ...

The deep ties between Tafelmusik and New York’s legendary Juilliard School are the spark behind this celebration of the theatrical and extraordinary music of Jean-Philippe Rameau. Violinist Robert ...

PARIS, April 1 (Reuters) - German fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld is a household name; 18th-century French composer Jean-Philippe Rameau isn't. But the two have been doing quite well together in a ...