Platée by Rameau

Celebrated Australian director Neil Armfield makes his Pinchgut debut in a deliciously twisted comedy by one of the greatest French baroque composers. Rameau clearly enjoyed himself composing this one-of-a-kind comédie lyrique, for the marriage of the Dauphin Louis XV to the Princess Maria Teresa of Spain – reputedly a woman of very little beauty – telling the story of the irresistibly outlandish marsh nymph Platée being tricked into believing that Jupiter is in love and wants to marry her.

Rameau takes aim at the very nature of French opera itself, turning tradition on its head with music of exceptional brilliance and wit, and sweeping away the studied elegance of set-piece ballets with ravishing melodies and striking shifts of mood and colour. Prepare to be utterly enchanted!

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• Program

  Platée by Rameau (1745)

  Music by Jean-Philippe Rameau

  Lyrics by Jacques Autreau

  Sung in French with English surtitles

• Artists

  Kanen Breen

  Platée

  Siobhan Stagg

  La Folie / Amour

  Anna Dowsley

  Juno / Clarine / Thalie

  Adrian Tamburini

  Cithéron / Satire

  David Greco

  Momus

  Orchestra of the Antipodes

  Erin Helyard

  Conductor and Keyboards

  Neil Armfield

  Director