PLATÉE
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Event details
29 May – 30 June 2024
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.
Sung in French with English supertitles
Booking Information
Public booking is now open – get your tickets today.
Ingrams Circle, Constellation and Patron deadline Tuesday 28 November 2023
Special Friend and Friend deadline Tuesday 9 January 2024
Affiliate Members: 10am on Tuesday 5 March 2024
GO≤35 Members: 10am on Tuesday 26 March 2024
Public booking: 10am on Tuesday 2 April 2024
First Bell: 5.35pm
Insight Talk: Tuesday 16 April 2024
29 May – 30 June 2024
29 May – 30 June 2024
Cast & Creative Team
Cast
Platée
Samuel Boden
La Folie
Mireille Asselin
Thespis & Mercury
Robert Murray
Momus
Jonathan McGovern
Satyr & Chitheron
Henry Waddington
Jupiter
Ossian Huskinson
Thalie
Holly Brown
Clarine
Holly Teague
Amor
Victoria Songwei Li
Juno
Annabel Kennedy
Maenad 1
Audrey Tsang
Maenad 2
Nancy Holt
Creative Team
Conductor
Paul Agnew
Director
Louisa Muller
Designer
Christopher Oram
Lighting Designer
Malcolm Rippeth
Video Design
Matt and Rob Vale – Illuminos
Movement Director
Rebecca Howell
The English Concert
Garsington Opera Chorus
Videos
Samuel Boden Singing Rameau
A former Alvarez Young Artist (2009 & 2010), Samuel will perform the title role in this masterpiece of French Baroque opera, rarely performed in the UK.
Follow the link below to watch Samuel performing “In convertendo Dominus” by Rameau with Le Concert d’Astrée under the baton of Emmanuelle Haïm.
Mireille Asselin Singing Purcell
Having previously starred as Zerlina in our Don Giovanni in 2019, Mireille returns as La Folie in the lead soprano role opposite Samuel Boden.
With a beautiful rendition of the familiar masterpiece, here is Mireille singing Purcell’s Music for a While with Lucas Harris playing the lute.
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