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.

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...