Les Bayadères, or exoticism between Classicism and Romanticism

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01/08/2014

In several respects – subject, musical treatment, style... – Les Bayadères appears to be situated between two different aesthetics. In its ‘Eastern’ setting, first of all: premièred in 1810, it comes more or less half-way between the often farcical turqueries of the mid-eighteenth to early nineteenth century and the ‘Oriental dream’ of the Romantics.

CD-Book Charles-Simon Catel. Les Bayadères (2014). Translation: Mary Pardoe.