The Operas of Rameau: Genesis, Staging, Reception

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