| Event type: | Audio/Video |
| Date: | Wednesday 21st May 2025 |
| Time: | 2:00pm |
| Group: | Opera Appreciation |
| Venue: | Burland Hall, Stanton |
| Organiser: |
Colin Davison
Tel: 01386 339559
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Platee is the 1745 comic opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau. It is historically quite an important piece, but the reason for showing it is above all that it is very funny. The production by the National Opera, Paris, was nominated in 2022 by MusicWeb International for Recording of the Year.
Director Laurent Pelly presents Platee as Queen of the Frogs, attended by scores of froglets, who foolishly believes herself to be irresistibly beautiful to the gods.
American tenor Lawrence Brownlee finds exactly the right tone between absurd affectation and lonely vulnerability and modulates his expression between sweet addresses to the gods to a rasping, froggy Qua, qua. An enjoyable, amusing and inventive show.