Les Fêtes d'Hébé review " Rameau wanted to charm and delight, and this succeeds
Britten theatre, London The Royal College of Music's European collaboration brings clean-edged chic and character to the French composer's opéra-ballet spectacleThe distinctively French form of opéra-ballet brings two genres together to make a third. For baroque composers such as Rameau, the term meant something lighter and more purely entertaining than the grander tragédie-lyrique. A hit in Paris in 1739, Hebe's …