Les Paladins

Jean-Philippe Rameau

Operas Hippolyte et Aricie (1733) Les Indes galantes (1735) Castor et Pollux (1737) Les fêtes d'Hébé (1739) Dardanus (1739) La princesse de Navarre (1745) Platée (1745) Les fêtes de Polymnie (1745) Le temple de la Gloire (1745) Les fêtes de Ramire (1745) Les fêtes de l'Hymen et de l'Amour (1747) Zaïs (1748) Les surprises de l'Amour (1748) Pigmalion (1748) Naïs (1749) Zoroastre (1749) La guirlande (1751) Acante et Céphise (1751) Daphnis et Eglé (1753) Les sibarites (1753) La naissance d'Osiris (1754) Anacréon (1754) Anacréon ( different version, 1757) Les Paladins (1760) Les Boréades (unperformed) Nélée et Myrthis (date unknown) Zéphire (date unknown) Io (unfinished, date unknown) See also: Lost operas by Jean-Philippe Rameau List of operas by Rameau

Les Paladins is an opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau first performed on 12 February 1760. The author of the libretto is unknown, but it has been attributed to Duplat de Monticourt. Rameau called Les Paladins a comédie lyrique, putting it in the same category as his earlier work Platée.

Roles

Role	Voice type	Premiere Cast, February 12, 1760 (Conductor: - )
Anselme	bass	Monsieur Gélin
Argie	mezzo-soprano	Sophie Arnould
Orcan	baritone	Monsieur Larrivée
Nérine	soprano	Mlle Lemière
Atis	tenor	Lombard
La fée Manto	haute-contre	Pillot
Un paladin	tenor	Muguet

Recordings

Les Paladins Les Arts Florissants, William Christie (2 DVDs, Opus Arte, 2005)

References

Sources

Girdlestone, Cuthbert, Jean-Philippe Rameau: His Life and Work, New York: Dover, 1969 (paperback edition)
Holden, Amanda (Ed.), The New Penguin Opera Guide, New York: Penguin Putnam, 2001. ISBN 0-140-29312-4
Sadler, Graham, (Ed.), The New Grove French Baroque Masters Grove/Macmillan, 1988
BBC Radio 3, 9 October 2004, Complete performance, Playlist (of the Christie version)