(c) Jean-Baptiste Millot Platée: Théâtre des Champs‐Elysées
Paris, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées — Main Hall
About the Event
Rameau’s Platée or three hours of pure entertainment in the French tradition.
Platée is a unique and surprising opera, both musically and dramatically. It has lost none of its magnificence since it was premiered over 275 years ago to celebrate the marriage of the French Dauphin and the Infanta of Spain. The subversion of the genre makes irony the work’s chief weapon. In Rameau’s hands, Olympus becomes a laughing stock, mythological grandeur a farce, and intrigues a mere vanity contest. By opting for the traditional structure of a prologue and three acts, akin to the grand lyric tragedy –that extremely noble and serious genre created by Lully – Rameau invented the lyric comedy genre.
Cast / Production
Cyrille Dubois | Platée
Petr Nekoranec | Thespis / Mercure
Guilhem Worms | Un satyre / Cithéron
Catherine Trottmann | Thalie / La Folie
Mathieu Gourlet | Momus / Jupiter
Lila Dufy | L’Amour / Clarine
Axelle Saint‐Cirel | Junon
Ensemble Il Caravaggio
Camille Delaforge | direction
Chœur de chambre Mélisme(s) | direction Gildas Pungier
Address
Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, 15, Avenue Montaigne, Paris, France — Google Maps
