Acante et Céphise, University College Opera, UCL, Bloomsbury Theatre, March 2012
Posted on 20 March 2012Each year University College Opera produces a little-performed opera from the past, and this year it was by the pre-eminent composer of eighteenth century French opera, Jean-Philippe Rameau. This particular opera was originally commissioned for the royal household to celebrate the birth of an heir to the heir to the throne, incongruously tacked on to the …