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Summary:

In recent years, interest in Rameau's operas has grown enormously. These works are no longer regarded as peripheral by performers and audiences but are increasingly staged in the world's major opera houses and festivals, while the production of first-rate recordings on CD and DVD continues to flourish. Such welcome developments have gone hand in hand with an upsurge in research on Rameau and his period. The present volume, devoted solely to the composer's operas, reflects this scholarly activity. It brings together a substantial group of essays by an international team of scholars on a wide range of aspects of Rameau's operas. The individual essays are informed by a variety of disciplines or sub-disciplines including literature, archival studies, musical analysis, gender studies, ballet and choreography, dramaturgy and staging. The contents are addressed to a wide readership, including not only scholars but also practical musicians, stage directors, dancers and choreographers.

Table of Contents:

• A little-known contribution to the Lulliste-Ramiste dispute : Jean Galli de Bibiena's Mémoires et aventures de monsieur de *** (1735) / Francesca Pagani
• Destouches and Collin de Blamont : two surintendants in the face of the Ramiste threat / Françoise Escande and Benoi̊t Dratwicki
• Rameau versus Mondonville : the construction of a post-Lullian musical identity in France / Thierry Favier
• Jean-Philippe Rameau's Art d'aimer : music and eroticism in the Age of Englightenment / Raphaëlle Legrand
• Re-assessing attributions to Louis de Cahusac of the librettos of Rameau's Io, Zéphire and Nélée et Mirthis / Thomas Soury
• The triumph of generosity, or "Let's make an opera-ballet" / Roger Savage
• New light on the genesis of the ill-fated opera Linus by La Bruère and Rameau / Marie Demeilliez
• A cluster of allusions to Vivaldi's Le quattro stagioni in Rameau's "Anacréon" (1757) / Graham Sadler
• Recreating Rameau : Jacques-Simon Mangot and his role in Parma / Margaret R. Butler
• An anonymous Messe des morts on themes by Rameau and Mondonville / Thomas Leconte
• "Objet d'étude et de curiosité" : Candeille's Castor et Pollux and its audiences, 1791-1817 / R.J. Arnold
• The impact of human and material contingencies on artistic creation : the case of Rameau's Les Indes galantes / Laura Naudeix
• Staging time and space in Rameau's tragédies en musique / Lois Rosow
• Stage sets and music in Rameau's operas / Rémy-Michel Trotier
• Do Rameau's dances "impose physical movement"? : a collaborative exploration / Hubert Hazebroucq and Rebecca Harris-Warrick
• Through the Mercure's lens : mid-eighteenth-century acting styles and vocal aesthetics at the Paris Opéra / Thomas Green
• Rameau's operas on disc / Patrick Florentin.

Contributors:

Sadler, Graham , editor

Thompson, Shirley, 1966- , editor

Williams, Jonathan Huw , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

English text.

Related Series:

Ashgate interdisciplinary studies in opera

Subjects:

Rameau, Jean-Philippe, 1683-1764 — Criticism and interpretation

Opera — France — 18th century

Rameau, Jean-Philippe, 1683-1764

1700-1799

Opera

Criticism and interpretation

France

General Notes:

Appendix with a list of Rameau's operas on LP, CD, and DVD disc (pages 285-299)
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

xxx, 310 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm.

Physical Characteristics:

illustration; music

Call Numbers:

ML410.R2 O6 2022

ISBNs:

9781472479266 (hardback)
1472479262 (hardback)

OCLC Numbers:

1015864159