The Operas of Rameau
Genesis, Staging, Reception
Series: Ashgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 30 September 2021
- ISBN 9781472479266
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages340 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 639 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 60 Illustrations, black & white; 23 Halftones, black & white; 37 Line drawings, black & white; 17 Tables, black & white 230
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Short description:
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.
MoreLong 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.
MoreTable of Contents:
Part I – Factions and Rivalry
1 A little-known contribution to the Lulliste-Ramiste dispute: Jean Galli Bibiena’s Mémoires et aventures de monsieur de *** (1735)
Francesca Pagani
2 Destouches and Collin de Blamont: two surintendants in the face of the Ramiste threat
Françoise Escande and Benoît 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
Raphaëlle Legrand
5 Re-assessing attributions to Louis de Cahusac of the librettos of Rameau’s Io, Zéphire and Nélée 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 Bruère and Rameau
Marie Demeilliez
Part III – Borrowings and Creative Renewal
8 A cluster of allusions to Vivaldi’s Le quattro stagioni in Rameau’s ‘Anacréon’ (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’étude et de curiosité’: 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 tragédies en musique
Lois Rosow
14 Stage sets and music in Rameau’s operas
Rémy-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 Opéra
Thomas Green
Part V – Discography
17 Rameau’s operas on disc
Patrick Florentin
