The Operas of Rameau: Genesis, Staging, Reception
- Author: Sadler, Graham
- Author: Thompson, Shirley
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Contents
- 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