The Operas of Rameau

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.

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.

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