Baroque bonanza

A parody of a French opera takes the stage in Beijing in an ongoing early-music series, Pang Bo reports.

Aparody of the baroque opera Hippolyte et Aricie (Hippolytus and Aricia) by Jean Philippe Rameau (1683-1764), the most important French opera composer of the Enlightenment period, was staged on Sunday at the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing.

The show, the second part of this year's Early Music Season, was presented by the Center of Baroque Music of Versailles to mark the 250th anniversary of Rameau's death.