25 Nov 2006

Dardanus

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,14936-2467704,00.html

rameau.pngNeil Fisher at the Royal Academy of Music [Times Online, 24 November 2006]

Once again you can blame the French for not looking after their own. They sniffed at Berlioz’s magnum opus, Les Troyens, gave nul points to Bizet’s Carmen, and, in 1739, it was the same story when it came to Rameau’s now largely forgotten Dardanus.