Les Indes galantes

Les Indes galantes is a ballet héroïque having structural similarities to L’Europe galante because it fitted Cahusac’s famous definition of the opéra-ballet as a spectacle composed of entrées having as many sets of characters and plots as it had acts (see seventeenth-century volume for ballet héroïque, L’Europe galante, and opéra-ballet). The musical score was by Rameau and the libretto was by Fuzelier (see seventeenth-century volume for Fuzelier). Audiences were perplexed at first by its…