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Opera in concert: Platée by Jean-Philippe Rameau<div> Opera in one prologue and three acts (1745)</div><div> Booklet by Adrien-Joseph Le Valois d'Orville</div><div><br></div><div> Alasdair Kent | Platée</div><div> Petr Nekoranec | Thespis/Mercury</div><div> Guilhem Worms | A Satyr/Cithero</div><div> Catherine Trottmann | Thalia/Madness</div><div> Mathieu Gourlet | Momus/Jupiter</div><div> Lila Dufy | Love / Clarine</div><div> Axelle Saint-Cirel | Junon</div><div> Together Il Caravaggio</div><div> Camille Delaforge | Director</div><div><br></div><div> Mélisme(s) Chamber Choir | Conductor</div><div> Gildas Pungier</div><div><br></div><div> Platée is a singular opera, whose surprising character, both musically and dramatically, has lost none of its splendor since its creation more than 275 years ago for the wedding of the Dauphin and the Infanta of Spain. Its subversion of the genre makes irony the work's main weapon. Under his pen, Olympus is ridiculed, mythological grandeur becomes a farce, and the intrigues a mere contest of vanities. By opting for the traditional structure of a prologue and three acts, akin to the grand tragédie lyrique—the eminently noble and serious genre created by Lully—Rameau here invents the genre of the comédie lyrique.</div><div><br></div><div> Co-production Théâtre des Champs-Élysées | Il Caravaggio</div><div><br></div>