Five countertenors and a tenor in an opera seria masterpiece!
Tag: opera
130. Les Indes galantes (Rameau)
"La terre, les cieux, et les mers / nous offrent tour-à-tour cent spectacles divers." Les Indes galantes offers plenty of spectacle : it's an all-singing, all-dancing extravaganza, a round-the-world trip full of ceremonies, storms, shipwrecks, volcanoes, and the lure of the exotic.
129. Castor et Pollux (Rameau)
If Hippolyte was a musical manifesto, a bold statement of what Rameau wanted opera to be, Castor is a step back to the bad old tragédie lyrique.


