Organization

Admin

Garsington Opera

Conductor

Paul Agnew

Stage director

Louisa Muller

Set designer

Christopher Oram

Costume designer

Lighting designer

Malcolm Rippeth

Choreographer

Rebecca Howell

Singer

Tenor

Samuel Boden

Platée

Soprano

Mireille Asselin

La Folie

Robert Murray

Thespis

Mercure

Bass-baritone

Jonathan McGovern

Momus

Henry Waddington

Cithéron

Un Satyre

Ossian Huskinson

Jupiter

Orchestra

The English Concert

Others

Garsington Opera Chorus

French

Platée -  (Platea)

Buckinghamshire

United Kingdom

Public

Platea

Rahul Solomon

English

Approved

A comic-tragic opera with grand choruses and fabulous dances plays out in a world of glamour and deception. Rameau’s Platée is a first for Garsington Opera as we delve into the world of French Baroque opera, made possible by our special partnership with The English Concert. We are thrilled that director Louisa Muller and designer Christopher Oram return after their RPS Award-winning production of The Turn of the Screw, and we welcome conductor and French Baroque specialist Paul Agnew, who makes his Garsington debut.

A close relative to the familiar myth of Semele, Platée is a character whose self-deception and entrancement places her in the middle of a heartless plot, devised by the gods to cure Juno of her obsessive jealousy over Jupiter and his romantic attachments. Jupiter pretends to fall in love with Platée only to abandon her once Juno arrives, proving she has no reason to be jealous.

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Ensemble