Graham Sadler is a research professor at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of Hull. Shirley Thompson is Interim Principal of Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.Jonathan Williams is a leading Rameau specialist in Britain and director of the Rameau Project based at St Hilda’s College, Oxford.

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• Part I – Factions and Rivalry1 A little-known contribution to the Lulliste-Ramiste dispute: Jean Galli Bibiena’s Mémoires et aventures de monsieur de *** (1735) Francesca Pagani 2 Destouches and Collin de Blamont: two surintendants in the face of the Ramiste threatFrançoise Escande and Benoît Dratwicki 3 Rameau versus Mondonville: the construction of a post-Lullian musical identity in FranceThierry Favier Part II – Librettos: Gestation, Attributions, Interpretation4 Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Art d’aimer: music and eroticism in the Age of Enlightenment Raphaëlle Legrand 5 Re-assessing attributions to Louis de Cahusac of the librettos of Rameau’s Io, Zéphire and Nélée et Mirthis Thomas Soury 6 The Triumph of Generosity, or ‘Let’s Make an Opera-Ballet’Roger Savage 7 New light on the genesis of the ill-fated opera Linus by La Bruère and RameauMarie Demeilliez Part III – Borrowings and Creative Renewal8 A cluster of allusions to Vivaldi’s Le quattro stagioni in Rameau’s ‘Anacréon’ (1757)Graham Sadler 9 Recreating Rameau: J.-S. Mangot and his role in ParmaMargaret Butler 10 An anonymous Messe des morts on themes by Rameau and Mondonville Thomas Leconte 11 ‘Objet d’étude et de curiosité’: Candeille’s Castor et Pollux and its audiences, 1791–1815R. J. Arnold Part IV – Production, Performance and Criticism12 The impact of human and material contingencies on artistic creation: the case of Rameau’s Les Indes galantesLaura Naudeix 13 Staging time and space in Rameau’s tragédies en musiqueLois Rosow 14 Stage sets and music in Rameau’s operasRémy-Michel Trotier 15 Do Rameau’s dances ‘impose physical movement’? A collaborative explorationRebecca Harris-Warrick and Hubert Hazebroucq 16 Through the Mercure’s lens: mid-eighteenth-century acting styles and vocal aesthetics at the Paris OpéraThomas Green Part V – Discography17 Rameau’s operas on discPatrick Florentin