Platée, a silly and conceited nymph, falls for a fake wedding to Jupiter, king of the gods. This new staging of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Baroque masterpiece is colourful, eccentric, full of wit and free ...

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’ ...

Deakin University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. French master composer and theorist Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) created the opera Platée for the wedding of Louis, Dauphin ...

Contemporary reimaginings of Baroque opera don’t get much wilder than the current City Opera revival of Rameau’s Platée. But then, the subject matter of this delicious satire was pretty far out when ...

This week, an opera was born. But the birth of Jean-Philippe Rameau's Io has been a long time coming — in fact, it took about 280 years. "We don't know anything about this opera, not the name of the ...