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.

Joshua Kosman is the Chronicle’s former classical music critic. He retired in 2024, after covering classical music for the San Francisco Chronicle since 1988, reviewing and reporting on the wealth of ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “I cannot enter a house without being told of the horrors of this opera,” complained an English visitor to ...

KEENE, N.H. Pigmalion -- King Louis XIV demanded the best of everything. And when it came to the best music, he had Jean-Philippe Rameau to serve him well. I have always had a fond spot for Rameau's ...

Music in Art, Vol. 34, No. 1/2, Music, Body, and Stage: The Iconography of Music Theater and Opera (Spring–Fall 2009), pp. 165-175 (11 pages) Jean-Philippe Rameau's opera Dardanus was performed at the ...

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 ...