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.
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 ...
It always feels like the beginning of summer when I zip along the M40 to the Getty family’s stunning Wormsley Estate for the opening of the Garsington Opera season. The 2024 Season runs from Wednesday ...
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 ...
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 ...
DIVINE COMEDY: Director Robert Carsen set his adaptation of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s famous comic opera “Platée,” in which the gods are haughty and play tricks on the earthlings, at Rue Cambon — with ...
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 ...