Platée

Production de 1999 - Laurent Pelly

• Conductor

  Marc Minkowski

• Music

  Jean-Philippe Rameau
  (1683-1764)

• Libretto

  Adrien-Joseph Le Valois d'Orville

• Director

  Laurent Pelly

• Set design

  Chantal Thomas

• Lighting design

  Joël Adam

• Costume design

  Laurent Pelly

• Choreography

  Laura Scozzi

• Dramaturgy

  Agathe Mélinand

• Chorus master

  Ching-Lien Wu

“A nymph reigning over a watery empire” or an “absurd Naiad”? Who exactly is Rameau’s strange creature sung by a countertenor and who shatters the conventions of opera? The ugly and conceited frog Platée is the victim of a machination of the gods who make her believe that she is loved by Jupiter. In this opera, composed to mark the marriage of the Dauphin Louis, son of Louis XV, to the notoriously unbecoming Princess Maria Teresa of Spain, Jean‑Philippe Rameau turns irony into the principal weapon of his score. This cruel yet moving farce returns to the stage of the Opera in a delightfully whimsical production by Laurent Pelly.

Les Musiciens du Louvre
Choeurs de l’Opéra national de Paris

Coproduction avec le Grand théâtre de Genève, l'Opéra national de Bordeaux, l'Opéra national de Montpellier, le Théâtre de Caen et l'Opéra de Flandre

Platée

Production de 1999 - Laurent Pelly

• Thespis

  Mathias Vidal

• Un satyre, Cithéron

  Nahuel di Pierro

• Momus

  Marc Mauillon

• Thalie, la folie

  Julie Fuchs

• L'amour, Clarine

  Tamara Bounazou

• Platée

  Lawrence Brownlee

• Jupiter

  Jean Teitgen

• Mercure

  Reinoud Van Mechelen

• Junon

  Adriana Bignagni Lesca