Platée

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Platée is a comic opera (ballet bouffon) by Jean-Philippe Rameau, renowned for its satirical plot and inventive, virtuosic score.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ballet bouffon
comic opera
acts 3
basedOn a libretto by Jacques Autreau
catalogueNumber Rameau opera without standard opus number
character Cithéron
Juno
Jupiter
La Folie
Mercury
Momus
Platée
commissionedFor marriage of Louis, Dauphin of France, and Maria Teresa Rafaela of Spain
composer Jean-Philippe Rameau
firstModernRevival 20th century
genre comic opera
opera
hasRecording multiple commercial audio recordings
hasRoleType title role for high tenor (haute-contre)
hasVideoRecording multiple filmed stage productions
influenced modern revivals of French Baroque opera
language French
librettist Adrien-Joseph Le Valois d’Orville
mainCharacter Platée (a marsh nymph)
nationalityOfWork French
notableFeature extensive use of dance
parody of operatic conventions
satirical plot
virtuosic score
orchestration Baroque orchestra with winds and continuo
originalAudience French royal court at Versailles
performancePractice often performed on period instruments in modern productions
period Baroque
placeInOeuvre one of Rameau’s major comic operas
premiereDate 1745-03-31
premierePlace Versailles
premiereVenue Grande Écurie, Versailles
prologue yes
satirizes courtly manners
operatic heroics
setting the marshes of Cithaeron in ancient Greece
structure prologue and three acts
style French Baroque opera-ballet
subjectMatter deception of Platée by the gods
jealousy of Juno
mock courtship and marriage
vocalForces soloists, chorus, and orchestra

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Platée character Platée