The Operas of Rameau
Genesis, Staging, Reception
1st Edition
Published on 9. September 2021
340 pages
978-1-317-02230-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
17 Tables, black and white; 37 Line drawings, black and white; 23 Halftones, black and white; 60 Illustrations, black and white
ISBN-13
978-1-317-02230-5 (9781317022305)
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Genesis, Staging, Reception
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1st Edition
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Graham Sadler is a research professor at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of Hull.
Shirley Thompson is Interim Principal of Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.
Jonathan Williams is a leading Rameau specialist in Britain and director of the Rameau Project based at St Hilda's College, Oxford.
Shirley Thompson is Interim Principal of Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.
Jonathan Williams is a leading Rameau specialist in Britain and director of the Rameau Project based at St Hilda's College, Oxford.
Content
Part I - Factions and Rivalry
1 A little-known contribution to the Lulliste-Ramiste dispute: Jean Galli Bibiena's Memoires et aventures de monsieur de *** (1735)
Francesca Pagani
2 Destouches and Collin de Blamont: two surintendants in the face of the Ramiste threat
Francoise Escande and Benoit Dratwicki
3 Rameau versus Mondonville: the construction of a post-Lullian musical identity in France
Thierry Favier
Part II - Librettos: Gestation, Attributions, Interpretation
4 Jean-Philippe Rameau's Art d'aimer: music and eroticism in the Age of Enlightenment
Raphaelle Legrand
5 Re-assessing attributions to Louis de Cahusac of the librettos of Rameau's Io, Zephire and Nelee et Mirthis
Thomas Soury
6 The Triumph of Generosity, or 'Let's Make an Opera-Ballet'
Roger Savage
7 New light on the genesis of the ill-fated opera Linus by La Bruere and Rameau
Marie Demeilliez
Part III - Borrowings and Creative Renewal
8 A cluster of allusions to Vivaldi's Le quattro stagioni in Rameau's 'Anacreon' (1757)
Graham Sadler
9 Recreating Rameau: J.-S. Mangot and his role in Parma
Margaret Butler
10 An anonymous Messe des morts on themes by Rameau and Mondonville
Thomas Leconte
11 'Objet d'etude et de curiosite': Candeille's Castor et Pollux and its audiences, 1791-1815
R. J. Arnold
Part IV - Production, Performance and Criticism
12 The impact of human and material contingencies on artistic creation: the case of Rameau's Les Indes galantes
Laura Naudeix
13 Staging time and space in Rameau's tragedies en musique
Lois Rosow
14 Stage sets and music in Rameau's operas
Remy-Michel Trotier
15 Do Rameau's dances 'impose physical movement'? A collaborative exploration
Rebecca Harris-Warrick and Hubert Hazebroucq
16 Through the Mercure's lens: mid-eighteenth-century acting styles and vocal aesthetics at the Paris Opera
Thomas Green
Part V - Discography
17 Rameau's operas on disc
Patrick Florentin
1 A little-known contribution to the Lulliste-Ramiste dispute: Jean Galli Bibiena's Memoires et aventures de monsieur de *** (1735)
Francesca Pagani
2 Destouches and Collin de Blamont: two surintendants in the face of the Ramiste threat
Francoise Escande and Benoit Dratwicki
3 Rameau versus Mondonville: the construction of a post-Lullian musical identity in France
Thierry Favier
Part II - Librettos: Gestation, Attributions, Interpretation
4 Jean-Philippe Rameau's Art d'aimer: music and eroticism in the Age of Enlightenment
Raphaelle Legrand
5 Re-assessing attributions to Louis de Cahusac of the librettos of Rameau's Io, Zephire and Nelee et Mirthis
Thomas Soury
6 The Triumph of Generosity, or 'Let's Make an Opera-Ballet'
Roger Savage
7 New light on the genesis of the ill-fated opera Linus by La Bruere and Rameau
Marie Demeilliez
Part III - Borrowings and Creative Renewal
8 A cluster of allusions to Vivaldi's Le quattro stagioni in Rameau's 'Anacreon' (1757)
Graham Sadler
9 Recreating Rameau: J.-S. Mangot and his role in Parma
Margaret Butler
10 An anonymous Messe des morts on themes by Rameau and Mondonville
Thomas Leconte
11 'Objet d'etude et de curiosite': Candeille's Castor et Pollux and its audiences, 1791-1815
R. J. Arnold
Part IV - Production, Performance and Criticism
12 The impact of human and material contingencies on artistic creation: the case of Rameau's Les Indes galantes
Laura Naudeix
13 Staging time and space in Rameau's tragedies en musique
Lois Rosow
14 Stage sets and music in Rameau's operas
Remy-Michel Trotier
15 Do Rameau's dances 'impose physical movement'? A collaborative exploration
Rebecca Harris-Warrick and Hubert Hazebroucq
16 Through the Mercure's lens: mid-eighteenth-century acting styles and vocal aesthetics at the Paris Opera
Thomas Green
Part V - Discography
17 Rameau's operas on disc
Patrick Florentin
