Castor et Pollux: Rameau’s Rising Stars
Primary Investigator
Director of College Music, St Hilda’s College
Oxford University Faculty of Music
Partner Organisations:
Rameau Project Choir
About the project:
Building on past achievements of the on‐going Rameau Project, the concert at the Sheldonian Theatre is the focal point of ‘Castor et Pollux, Rameau’s Rising Stars’, a two‐year project whose goal, while bringing to life one of Rameau’s most revolutionary scores, is to stimulate new research activity leading to a new volume on Rameau, and to develop repertoire‐specific expertise amongst UK‐based student and professional musicians, especially young singers.
Refocusing research‐led activities in Oxford, this event is an important stepping‐stone to other performances around the UK during 2022 – including the first Rameau opera in Wales – and to a fully staged production with dance in 2023/24
Jonathan Williams – The Rameau Project
‘Wonderfully idiomatic conducting from Williams...'
with the OAE (The Guardian)
'…Williams, who knew the score backwards, and whose skill at releasing its energy, caprice, novelty and depth, was the best of all the pleasures of the evening.'
with the OAE (Opera Magazine)
★★★★★ The Times (for Les fêtes d’Hébé at RCM)
Guido Martin-Brandis – The Opera Company
Praise for Rameau’s Roots
★★★★★ Opera Now
“I can’t imagine anything more happiness enhancing… a transporting little delight.”
Praise for Onegin and Tatiana
★★★★ Live Theatre UK
"a subtle and shrewd exploration of one of the most intriguingly adult and mature opera plots that there is"
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