Rameau: Platée

Les Musiciens du Louvre;
Minkowski, Marc

BAC 224

Filmed in June 2022 at Opéra national de Paris (Palais Garnier)

Produced by Antoine Perset, Laurent Métivier

Directed for TV & Video by François-René Martin

Comédie lyrique (ballet bouffon) in a prologue and three acts (1745)

Libretto Adrien-Joseph Le Valois d’Orville after Jacques Autreau

Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Platée is a masterpiece of the French operatic repertoire and was highly regarded by critics during the composer’s lifetime. Composed for the marriage of the Dauphin Louis, son of Louis XV, to the Infanta Maria Teresa of Spain, it was first performed at Versailles in 1745 and became an instant hit. The plot concerns the ugly and conceited frog Platée, the victim of a machination of the gods who make her believe that she is loved by Jupiter. Is this Rameau mocking Princess Maria Teresa of Spain – reputedly a woman of little beauty? Or the French court, which saw itself as a new Olympus? This classic production from the Opéra de Paris by Marc Minkowski and Laurent Pelly returns to the stage with an entirely new cast, featuring Julie Fuchs, Mathias Vidal, Jean Teitgen and Lawrence Brownlee

DVD

Muzyka klasyczna

Bel Air Classiques

09-02-2024

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