Platée

Submitted by Théâtre des Champs-Elysées (LR-228514). Platée Jean-Philippe Rameau Platée by Rameau or three hours of pure French-style entertainment. Distribution Cyrille Dubois Platée Petr Nekoranec Thespis / Mercure Guilhem Worms A satyr / Cithéron Catherine Trottmann Thalie / La Folie Mathieu Gourlet Momus / Jupiter Lila Dufy Love / Clarine Axelle Saint-Cirel Junon Ensemble Il Caravaggio Camille Delaforge chamber choir Melisme(s) direction Gildas Pungier En a few words Platée is a singular opera, whose surprising character, Musically and Dramatically, has not lost any of its superb since its creation more than 275 years ago on the occasion of the wedding of the Dauphin and the Infanta of Spain. The diversions of the genre make irony the main weapon of the work. Under his pen, Olympus is derided, the superb mythological becomes a farce, and the intrigues a simple concourse of vanities. By opting for the traditional structure in a prologue and three acts close to the great lyrical tragedy, the eminently noble and serious genre created by Lully, Rameau invents here the genre of lyrical comedy. Coproduction Théâtre des Champs-Élysées Il Caravaggio