Operas by Jean-Philippe Rameau

opera-ballet by Jean-Philippe Rameau

opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau

thumb|Jean-Philippe Rameau Platée is an opera in a prologue and three acts by Jean-Philippe Rameau with a libretto by Adrien-Joseph Le Valois d'Orville. Rameau bought the rights to the libretto Platée ou Junon jalouse (Plataea, or Juno Jealous) by Jacques Autreau (1657–1745) and had d'Orville modify it. The ultimate source of the story is a myth related by the Greek writer Pausanias in his Guide to Greece.

1737 opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau

opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau

opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau

opera/ballet by Jean-Philippe Rameau

dramatic work by Jean-Philippe Rameau and Voltaire

thumb|Jean-Philippe Rameau Zoroastre (Zoroaster) is an opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau, first performed on 5 December 1749 by the Opéra in the first Salle du Palais-Royal in Paris. The libretto is by Louis de Cahusac. Zoroastre was the fourth of Rameau's tragédies en musique to be staged and the last to appear during the composer's own lifetime. Audiences gave the original version a lukewarm reception, so Rameau and his librettist thoroughly reworked the opera for a revival which took place at the Opéra on 19 January 1756. This time the work was a great success and this is the version generally

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thumb|Jean-Philippe Rameau Naïs is an opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau first performed on 22 April 1749 at the Opéra in Paris. It takes the form of a pastorale héroïque in three acts and a prologue. The librettist was Louis de Cahusac, in the fourth collaboration between him and Rameau. The work bears the subtitle Opéra pour La Paix, which refers to the fact that Rameau composed the opera on the occasion of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, at the conclusion of the War of the Austrian Succession. Its original title was Le triomphe de la paix, but criticism of the terms of the treaty led to a change

1754 opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau

opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau

opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau

thumb|Jean-Philippe RameauZaïs is an opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau first performed on 29 February 1748 at the Opéra in Paris. It takes the form of a pastorale héroïque in four acts and a prologue. The librettist was Louis de Cahusac.

lyric opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau

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