Everyone's favorite marsh nymph -- the froggy, self-delusional Platee -- is back in Berkeley for a brief sojourn, and Baroque opera has never been so colorful or deliriously funny.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Platée, at Garsington Opera - Alastair Muir Comic opera can be cruel, but it is hard to think of any that is quite so brutal as ...

Lucie Skeaping delves into Rameau's comic masterpiece Platee. A colourful work, it turned many of the operatic conventions of the 18th century on their head. Show more Lucie Skeaping looks at Jean ...

The Only Way is Ancient Rome in this retelling of Rameau’s 1745 opera with Samuel Boden captivating in the title role To the left: a tiled hot tub and mini colonnade. To the right: a show-home bar ...

Contemporary reimaginings of Baroque opera don’t get much wilder than the current City Opera revival of Rameau’s Platée. But then, the subject matter of this delicious satire was pretty far out when ...

French master composer and theorist Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) created the opera Platée for the wedding of Louis, Dauphin of France, son of King Louis XV of France, and the Infanta Maria Theresa ...

DIVINE COMEDY: Director Robert Carsen set his adaptation of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s famous comic opera “Platée,” in which the gods are haughty and play tricks on the earthlings, at Rue Cambon — with ...

Pink, voguing, drag, stiletto heels, opera, seeing that list, you may feel that opera seems out of place, but you couldn't be more wrong. On July 10, Des Moines Metro Opera (DMMO) took all those and ...

It always feels like the beginning of summer when I zip along the M40 to the Getty family’s stunning Wormsley Estate for the opening of the Garsington Opera season. The 2024 Season runs from Wednesday ...

Rameau’s most popular opera is probably “Platée,” a comic tale of an ugly water nymph who is convinced that Jupiter is in love with her; certainly, Mark Morris’s production at New York City Opera ...

Rameau’s opera has a deeply unpleasant plot, but Garsington’s exuberantly vulgar, expertly sung staging makes it fly Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose works ...