Lucie Skeaping delves into Rameau's comic masterpiece Platee. A colourful work, it turned many of the operatic conventions of the 18th century on their head. Show more Lucie Skeaping looks at Jean ...

Opera du Rhin’s smashing new production of Rameau’s Platée in Strasbourg is produced for small theatres but with not the slightest diminution of vitality and ingenuity, and if you didn’t catch it ...

Everyone's favorite marsh nymph -- the froggy, self-delusional Platee -- is back in Berkeley for a brief sojourn, and Baroque opera has never been so colorful or deliriously funny.

After 15 years, a Baroque opera is returning to The National Theatre repertoire, and after a full quarter-century The National Theatre will stage a work by Jean-Philippe Rameau, the guru of ...

Mark Morris, the adventurous Manhattan-based director and choreographer, appears to have gone one better than the Marx Brothers with his night at the opera, “Platee,” a raucous and zany interpretation ...

First staged as part of a royal wedding celebration at Versailles in 1745, Jean-Philippe Rameau’s opera was originally described as a ‘comédie ballet’ or a ‘comédie lyrique’; Garsington calls it ...

Louisa Muller’s production hits all the right notes in this tragicomedy. Ossian Huskinson sings with mellow assurance as Jupiter, and Annabel Kennedy equals his ‘godly’ arrogance as Juno. There’s also ...

Deakin University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. French master composer and theorist Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) created the opera Platée for the wedding of Louis, Dauphin ...

The plot revolves around a mean-spirited plan to trick the unprepossessing yet conceited queen of the swamp, Platee, into believing that Jupiter, king of the gods, is going to marry her. Everyone is ...

Opera du Rhin’s smashing new production of Rameau’s Platée in Strasbourg is produced for small theatres but with not the slightest diminution of vitality and ingenuity, and if you didn’t catch it ...