On Wednesday, April 30 at the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater, and Friday May 2at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, Opera Lafayette begins its commemoration of the 250th anniversary of Jean-Philippe ...
Belgian soprano Gwendoline Blondeel performs as la Folie (madness) in the Opera Lafayette production of Jean-Philippe Rameau's recently completed 18th century opera Io. This week, an opera was born.
Platée (Junon jalouse), Movements: Que ce séjour (Act 1, scene 3) Lafayette Opera Orchestra Ryan Brown, Conductor Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer Jean-Paul Fouchécourt, Tenor Platée (Junon jalouse), ...
BERKELEY — With its luminous score and frequent flights into choreographed dance sequences, “Le Temple de la Gloire” (The Temple of Glory) is a rare example of the large-scale works of the French ...
Every other June, music fans flock to the Boston Early Music Festival for a week-long extravaganza of some of the best historically informed performances of music anywhere in the world. Since its ...
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 ...