Jean-Philippe Rameau was already 50 when he decided to write his first music for the stage. At 81, he died as the most successful and prolific opera composer in France of the Baroque era.
On 8 March, György Vashegyi and his two early-music ensembles, the Purcell Choir and the Orfeo Orchestra, are presenting Dardanus as a co-production between Müpa Budapest and the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles at the Early Music Festival, accompanied by tenor Cyrille Dubois and soprano Judith van Wanroij.
