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.

Rameau’s opera has a deeply unpleasant plot, but Garsington’s exuberantly vulgar, expertly sung staging makes it fly Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose works ...

Contemporary reimaginings of Baroque opera don’t get much wilder than the current City Opera revival of Rameau’s Platée. But then, the subject matter of this delicious satire was pretty far out when ...

The Only Way is Ancient Rome in this retelling of Rameau’s 1745 opera with Samuel Boden captivating in the title role To the left: a tiled hot tub and mini colonnade. To the right: a show-home bar ...

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 ...

French master composer and theorist Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) created the opera Platée for the wedding of Louis, Dauphin of France, son of King Louis XV of France, and the Infanta Maria Theresa ...

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Christophe Rousset is a William Christie protegé who in 1991 set up Les Talens Lyriques, a small theatrically driven baroque music ensemble which injects new life into old operas with the delicately ...

Platée, a silly and conceited nymph, falls for a fake wedding to Jupiter, king of the gods. This new staging of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Baroque masterpiece is colourful, eccentric, full of wit and free ...

Rameau’s most popular opera is probably “Platée,” a comic tale of an ugly water nymph who is convinced that Jupiter is in love with her; certainly, Mark Morris’s production at New York City Opera ...

Looking for where to watch 'Platée (Palais Garnier)' on your favorite screen? Figuring out where to stream, rent, buy, or watch where to rent or buy the François-René Martin-helmed movie can be more ...