![]() ![]() Mercury plays his traditional role of messenger. The plot pits two gods fighting for the love of a mortal nymph, the titular Io. it's a gift, really."Īs it turns out, Io is a hilarious one-act opera-ballet. "I hope the American public feels that because. "To try to complete the work and give it a possible life at last after almost three hundred years, it was quite a challenge, believe me," Bouissou tells Morning Edition host Leila Fadel. The longtime Rameau expert recently completed the 18th century French composer's unfinished manuscript of Io, which received its world premiere at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., this week, with an additional performance at New York's El Museo del Barrio next week. "We don't know anything about this opera, not the name of the librettist, nor the theater for which it was intended, nor the date of composition and why Rameau has not completed this opera," says French musicologist Sylvie Bouissou. But the birth of Jean-Philippe Rameau's Io has been a long time coming - in fact, it took about 280 years. Belgian soprano Gwendoline Blondeel performs as la Folie (madness) in the Opera Lafayette production of Jean-Philippe Rameau's recently completed 18th century opera Io. ![]()
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