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.

Opera du Rhin’s smashing new production of Rameau’s Platée in Strasbourg is produced for small theatres but with not the slightest diminution of vitality and ingenuity, and if you didn’t catch it ...

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 ...

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 ...

Platée, a silly and conceited nymph, falls for a fake wedding to Jupiter, king of the gods. This new staging of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Baroque masterpiece is colourful, eccentric, full of wit and free ...

Platée, a silly and conceited nymph, falls for a fake wedding to Jupiter, king of the gods. This new staging of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Baroque masterpiece is colourful, eccentric, full of wit and free ...

First staged as part of a royal wedding celebration at Versailles in 1745, Jean-Philippe Rameau’s opera was originally described as a ‘comédie ballet’ or a ‘comédie lyrique’; Garsington calls it ...