page_title: Les Indes galantes
section_title: Roles
hierarchical_section_title: Les Indes galantes / Roles
caption_attribution_description: English: Title page of Les Indes galantes, ballet heroique représenté par l'Academie royale de Musique&#160;; pour la premiere fois, le mardy 23. aoust 1735 . Remis avec la nouvelle entrée des Sauvages, le samedy dixiéme mars 1736 [Paris . ] De l'imprimerie de Jean-Baptiste-Christophe Ballard . M.DCCXXXVI
context_page_description: Les Indes Galantes is an opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau with a libretto by Louis Fuzelier. It takes the form of an opéra-ballet with a prologue and four entrées. Following an allegorical prologue, the four entrées have distinct and separate plots, but are unified by the theme of love in exotic places. The most famous pieces from the work, Danse des Sauvages and the final Chaconne, come from the final entrée.
  The premiere, including only the prologue and the first two of its four entrées, was staged by the Académie Royale de Musique at its theatre in the Palais-Royal in Paris on 23 August 1735, starring the leading singers of the Opéra: Marie Antier, Marie Pélissier, Mlle Errémans, Mlle Petitpas, Denis-François Tribou, Pierre Jélyotte, and Claude-Louis-Dominique Chassé de Chinais, and the dancers Marie Sallé and Louis Dupré. Michel Blondy provided the choreography. The ballet's Premier Menuet was used in the soundtrack of the 2006 film Marie Antoinette.
caption: Les Indes Galantes title page of the 1736 libretto
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