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 ...

Jonathan Rameau, a Sarasota native, wondered if his younger age might bar him from certain opportunities when he started his firm in 2019. But, he says, “I think that was mostly just my own ...

Long before the housing crisis smashed into the country, Max Rameau founded an organization to aggressively find housing for the homeless. How aggressive? In 2006, Rameau's Take Back the Land seized ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson had a recording career before signing with the German monolithe Deutsche Grammophon, having released three recordings for his own label, Dirrindí. In 2016, Ólafsson ...

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 ...