Pochon/Deshayes/Brahim-Djelloul/Bou/Les Nouveaux Caractères/d'Hérin(Glossa)The definitive version of Rameau's Les Surprises de l'Amour was first performed in Paris in 1758, though the work began life as a small-scale entertainment of the same name written a decade earlier for Madame de Pompadour's private theatre in Versailles. A big opera-ballet that gives song and dance equal dramatic weight, it never really allo…
