The story tells of Iphise (Galina Averina, pictured left), the daughter of Phrygian King Teucer (Grant Doyle) who is betrothed to his retainer Anténor (Timothy Nelson), but in love with her father’s ...

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In the mid-18th century, Jean-Philippe Rameau’s operas generated heated Parisian debate, if not outright fisticuffs. For better or worse, nobody takes opera that seriously any more, but the French ...

The opera is set in ancient Phrygia. Dardanus, son of Jupiter, is in love with Iphise – daughter of his enemy, king Teucer – and she with him, though neither is aware of the other’s feelings. Teucer ...

Setting an eighteenth century opera in the modern day risks falling into one of two traps. On the one hand, the chosen setting can demand everything to be so specific that it becomes a job to hammer ...

English Touring Opera has embarked on the autumn tour with its first foray into French baroque opera in Jean-Philippe Rameau’s rarely performed Dardanus, a lyric tragedy in which everything goes wrong ...

At the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux, Raphaël Pichon conducts a new production of Rameau's opera Dardanus, with the ensemble Pygmalion, in a staging by Michel Fau and a choreography by Christopher ...

The Norwegian Chamber Orchestra is back with more from their Tanglewood appearance this summer. We hear a suite from the opera "Dardanus," by Jean-Phillipe Rameau.