Rameau's

In 1982, Ms. Turocy was invited to choreograph Rameau's "Les Bor é ades" for the official French festivities in honor of the composer's 300th birthday the following year.

Stepping Through History Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim 2011

So, for all the haunting loveliness Kibbey found in an uncredited transcription of Rameau's "L'Egyptienne," the crispness and clarity of the clavichord original was lost.

Harpist Bridget Kibbey creates an air of enchantment at Phillips 2011

The violence of transposition — Rameau's Platée in a Village bar, Così fan tutte in a postmodern suburb, Wagner's Nibelungs in what might pass for a nineteenth-century sewage system, the Scottish Highlanders of Rossini's La Donna del Lago diverted to the cracked cement playground of some abandoned inner-city neighborhood — seems the quickest and surest way to defamiliarize and thereby force new attention.

The Glimmerglass 'Traviata' O'Brien, Geoffrey 2009

It's a great favorite for photos by tourists, ad agencies and in this case a publicity shot for the chorus of the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, which was playing Arne's Milton masque, "Comus" and Rameau's "Pygmalion" at Herbst Theatre Friday evening.

Philharmonia Baroque Publicity Shot sfmike 2008

It's a great favorite for photos by tourists, ad agencies and in this case a publicity shot for the chorus of the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, which was playing Arne's Milton masque, "Comus" and Rameau's "Pygmalion" at Herbst Theatre Friday evening.

Archive 2008-09-01 sfmike 2008

The show recalls Mr. Morris's uproarious production of Rameau's "Platée" and in its giddy randomness worked much better than his ponderous version of Gluck's "Orfeo ed Euridice" at the Met last season.

Two Kings, Two Baroque Works 2008

In two decades and seven novels, Cathleen Schine has made a specialty of creating spirited if mildly depressive heroines in search of a brainy conceit to live by, whether it's birdwatching (To the Birdhouse), French Enlightenment philosophy (Rameau's Niece), Darwinian theory (The Evolution of Jane), or Flaubert's famous dictum about Madame Bovary (She Is Me).

Doggy Affections Schuessler, Jennifer 2007

Coming after the haute-dinosaur years of his predecessor, Herbert von Karajan, his commitment to contemporary and historically neglected opera has been commendable, and he has pulled off a number of unforgettable stagings, including those of Rameau's Les Boréades, Busoni's Doktor Faustus and Kaija Saariaho's L'Amour de Loin.

Silliness and Subversion Taint the Salzburg Opera Festival 2001

Rameau's Niece is a jeu d'esprit for readers who would be able to guess that from the title, and who would feel at home in the milieu it inhabits.

La Femme Savante Annan, Gabriele 1993

Rameau's careful balance between craft and inspira - tion, rules and good taste, technical mastery and genius, is scornfully thrown aside by Rousseau in exchange for

MUSICAL GENIUS EDWARD E. LOWINSKY 1968