If there’s one composer who embodies the French musical genius it must surely be Jean-Philippe Rameau, the 250th anniversary of whose death is being marked with a string of performances at this year’s ...

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 ...

In France, he is revered; in Britain he is barely performed. As ENO prepares its first-ever production of Jean-Philippe Rameau, Christian Curnyn applauds the legacy of a revolutionary who has always ...

Devos/Gens/Van Mechelen/Christoyannis/Les Ambassadeurs – La Grande Écurie/Kossenko (Alpha, three CDs) A rare recording of Rameau’s unrevised original, compelling at times but mainly of interest to ...

Lucie Skeaping delves into Rameau's comic masterpiece Platee. A colourful work, it turned many of the operatic conventions of the 18th century on their head. Show more Lucie Skeaping looks at Jean ...

When Víkingur Ólafsson was about 5 years old, he already knew what he wanted to be. "It sounds crazy, but I always saw myself as a concert pianist," he says. "Even if I wasn't a good pianist." Over ...