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2022 / AROP evening / Opera
29 Jun.

Platée

    Palais Garnier

    19h30

    Duration
    3h00

    Dress Cocktail attire

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  • 1st part
    19h30
  • Intermission cocktail
    20h40
  • 2nd part
    21h10
  • End of the performance
    22h30

“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.

Platée

Production de 1999 - Laurent Pelly

  • Music

    Jean-Philippe Rameau
    (1683-1764)

  • Conductor
    Marc Minkowski

  • 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

Cast

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Mathias
Vidal

Thespis

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Nahuel di
Pierro

Un satyre, Cithéron

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Marc
Mauillon

Momus

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Julie
Fuchs

Thalie, la folie

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Tamara
Bounazou

L'amour, Clarine

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Lawrence
Brownlee

Platée

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Jean
Teitgen

Jupiter

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Reinoud Van
Mechelen

Mercure

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Adriana Bignagni
Lesca

Junon

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