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Les Indes gallantes

Les Indes Galantes is an opera-ballet composed by Jean- Philippe Rameau, with a French libretto by Louis Fuzelier. It includes a prologue and four acts. It premiered at the Académie Royale de Musique et Danse in Paris on 23rd August 1735. That first version had a prologue followed by the first two acts, which was later modified.

The opera recounts the period of party and pleasure during the reign of Louis XV and his court. Music and dance illustrate the plot which is about romantic relationships in exotic places: Turkey, Peru, North America and Persia (“Les Indes”). The opera illustrates the links established between these different cultures.