Fra le pupille," "Les Indes galantes: Extract. [8] According to Rodolfo Celletti, the role of Platée performed by La Tour was the highest haute-contre part ever written by Rameau. Arias: 1 Duets: Ensembles: Scenes: 1. 0.0/10 - 10 A furious Junon returns from Athens, bent on revenge, but Mercure persuades her to hide in waiting until the right moment. - Luciosilla (2014/11/23), Orage (Act I) Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Compte rendu, opéra. Rameau's first attempt at comic opera, the plot concerns an ugly water nymph who believes that Jupiter, the king of the gods, is in love with her. Fxaguessy (2016/12/2), Complete Score Platée, RCT 53 (Rameau, Jean-Philippe) Movements/Sections Mov'ts/Sec's: Prologue and 3 Acts Composition Year 1745, revised 1749 Genre Categories: ... Also known as "Air de La Folie" Purchase: Javascript is required for this feature. 6 *#353241 - 0.06MB, 2 pp. 0.0/10 Luciosilla (2014/11/23), Orage (Act I) 8 *#23451 - 15.73MB, 167 pp. (-) - V/V/V - 658×⇩ - Caprotti, PDF scanned by Caprotti 6 8 - 0.0/10 10 *#449673 - 1.07MB, 4 pp. 2 4 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 343×⇩ - Luciosilla, Complete Score When Thalie and Momus arrive, they seek Thespis' help in planning the presentation of an entertainment in which they will recreate a long-ago attempt by Jupiter to cure his wife, Juno, of her jealousy. 2 (-) - !N/N/!N - 225×⇩ - FLAC - Rgagnaux, Ouverture 6 In the middle of a raging storm, Mercury comes down from the heavens and explains to Citheron that it is caused by Juno's jealousy and that he has been sent by Jupiter to find a way of taking his mind off the problem. (-) - V/V/V - 4964×⇩ - Bassani, PDF scanned by RUS-Mrg With Paul Agnew, Mireille Delunsch, Yann Beuron, Vincent Le Texier. While Dionysus is a divine patron of the theatre, Platée is a visual metaphor for opera. (-) - !N/!N/!N - 83×⇩ - MID - Luciosilla, Complete Score Platée was written for the celebrations of the wedding in 1745 of Louis, Dauphin of France, son of King Louis XV of France, to the Infanta Maria Theresa of Spain, who, according to contemporary sources, like the title character was no beauty. The main character in The Frogs, Dionysus, may well have been the inspiration for many of the traits of the nymph Platée.Both rule over wetlands and their inhabitants, and both are subjected to extensive mockery. 8 2 Platée (Plataea) is an opera in a prologue and three acts by Jean-Philippe Rameau with a libretto by Adrien-Joseph Le Valois d'Orville. Rameau bought the rights to the libretto Platée ou Junon Jalouse (Plataea, or Juno Jealous) by Jacques Autreau (1657–1745) and had d'Orville modify it. 4 - 4 4 4 [7] Its first public run was very successful and it was later revived in 1750 and again in 1754, always starring in the title role the second leading haute-contre of the Opéra, Jean-Paul Spesoller [it], called La Tour. 4 4 La Folie, Thalie Chantal Santon (soprano) L'Amour, Clarine Andrea Csereklyei (soprano) ... Baroque operas begun in 2011: it is particularly interesting for us that, following Leclair's Scylla et Glaucus and Rameau's Les Fêtes de Polymnie, Platée is the third French opera from the 1740s we will perform at the Palace of Arts. 10 8 0.0/10 4 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 781×⇩ - Luciosilla, Parties (Hautes-contre, Tailles) 8 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 343×⇩ - Luciosilla, Dessus I (Flute, Oboe, Violins) While she seems to believe that it is Cithéron who is in love with her — in spite of his denials — she is delighted to hear from Mercury that Jupiter will soon descend from the heavens and declare his love: "The god of thunder, drawn to earth by your beauty, wishes to cast at your feet both his heart and the Universe"[20] A new storm created by Juno bursts forth, but Platée is not put out and the marsh creatures retreat to their watery homes. 4 8 - Melchior Grimm called it a "sublime work" and even Rameau's bitter enemy Jean-Jacques Rousseau referred to it as "divine". (-) - !N/!N/!N - 265×⇩ - Fxaguessy, PDF typeset by arranger 2 Preview, buy, and download songs from the album Rameau: Règne Amour, including "Les Indes galantes: Extract. Rameau clearly enjoyed himself composing this one-of-a-kind comédie lyrique, for the marriage of the Dauphin Louis XV to the Princess Maria Teresa of Spain – reputedly a woman of very little beauty – telling the story of the irresistibly ugly marsh nymph Platée being tricked into believing that Jupiter is in love and wants to marry her. Apr 20, 2017 - Explore dragana's board "Jean Philippe Rameau" on Pinterest. Rameau's Platée owes much more to Aristophanes' comedy The Frogs than the frog chorus. 4 Finally, la Folie … 4 6 0.0/10 After stealing Apollo’s lyre, La Folie sings a beautiful aria, exciting all the madmen, who dance around her. 0.0/10 The plot tells how the water nymph Platée craves for Jupiter's love and how he deludes her. 6 2 Paris. - 8 0.0/10 6 [10] The French version reappeared at a production in Monte Carlo in 1917 but Platée only returned to France at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in 1956 with young tenor Michel Sénéchal as the queen of frogs, a part which Mr Sénéchal took again in the revival presented by the Paris Opera at the Salle Favart in 1977,[11] with Michel Plasson as conductor. (-) - !N/!N/!N - 179×⇩ - Luciosilla, Basses *#353245 - 0.04MB, 1 pp. 10 the first performance was originally scheduled for February the 4th, but had to be postponed on account of the death of the, Sources used not to report the full name of this singer, generally referred to just as La Tour, Latour or Delatour. Admirez tout mon art célèbre. (-) - !N/!N/!N - 334×⇩ - Luciosilla, Hautes-contre 10 Carolus (2008/10/24), Complete Score 8 Suite de Danses (extraites de Platée, Dardanus, Zéphyre, Zais) (EU) Rameau revised the opera in collaboration with the librettist Ballot de Sauvot and presented it at the Opéra in Paris on 9 February 1749. • Page visited 29,932 times • Powered by MediaWiki Paul Agnew, direction. Caprotti (2008/7/4), Passepied *#353238 - 0.06MB, 2 pp. 4 Dancers and singers alternately praise and mock Platée. 6 10 6 The opera was first performed on 31 March 1745 at the Grande Écurie, Versailles. 2 (-) - V/V/V - 7034×⇩ - Carolus, PDF scanned by US-DN 6 *#353239 - 0.05MB - 2:27 - *#330844 - 2.72MB, 2 pp. - Featuring some highly evocative passages, intoxicating dances and unusual musical effects, this is one of the composer’s greatest works. - *#43643 - 0.08MB, 2 pp. (-) - V/V/V - 462×⇩ - Caprotti, Complete Score 10 2 2 - *#353243 - 0.04MB, 1 pp. 2 Now it is the turn of La Folie to entertain in a show-stopping scene. An extended divertissment proceeds, including a show-stopping highlight in which La Folie (Madness) sings the story of Apollo and Daphne as a warning to Platée not to get involved with Jupiter. Little is known about this production, except that the title role was taken by the haute-contre Pierre Jélyotte, a famous character actor. Rameau : Platée à l’Opéra Comique (Les Arts Florissants), le 20 mars 2014. After a night of partying, the Chorus wakes Thespis from a drunken sleep. Patricia Petibon/Les Folies Françoises/Patrick Cohen-Akenine Platée - Tilman Lichdi Jupiter - Randall Jakobsh Junon - Lussine Levoni Thespis/Mercure - Martin Platz Ein Satyr - Taehyun Jun Momus/Cithéron - Sébastien Parotte Thalie/La Folie - Leah Gordon Amor/Clarine - Franziska Kern Chor des Staatstheaters Nürnberg Staatsphilharmonie Nürnberg Leitung: Hervé Niquet Aufnahme von 2013 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 110×⇩ - MID - Luciosilla, MID file (audio/video) Bassani (2011/9/22), Ouverture Monday night's performance wasn't wholly successful, for various reasons, though the absence of sets and costumes did make it possible to focus on the many marvels and musical jokes of Rameau's astonishing score - one of his very best. (-) - !N/!N/!N - 87×⇩ - MID - Luciosilla, Ritournelle (Act II, sc.1) Luciosilla (2014/11/24), Dessus II (Flute, Oboe, Violins) *#353243 - 0.04MB, 1 pp. - 10 8 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 1343×⇩ - Luciosilla, Ritournelle (Act II, sc.1) Jupiter’s friends also arrive and pretend to admire Platée, while actually ridiculing her. Jean-Paul Fouchécourt is an irresistibly self-absorbed sea-nymph in Rameau’s Platée which also features a dazzling star-turn by Mireille Delunsch as La Folie. - 0.0/10 4 Jupiter and Platée begin to take part in the wedding ceremony, but, stalling after his initial "I swear", he awaits the arrival of Juno. 4 8 Platée was one of the most highly regarded of Rameau… Robert Carsen, mise en scène, Vocal score available at the International Music Score Library Project, Traité de l'harmonie réduite à ses principes naturels, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Platée&oldid=994883144, Articles with Italian-language sources (it), Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz work identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat-VIAF identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Alexandre, Ivan A., Notes from the CD recording of, This page was last edited on 18 December 2020, at 01:10. December 6, 2020. [2] The work was initially called a ballet bouffon, though it was later styled a comédie lyrique, putting it in the same category as Rameau's Les Paladins. 0.0/10 [3] Rameau may have been inspired by a revival of an earlier comic opera, Les amours de Ragonde by Jean-Joseph Mouret, in 1742,[4] or by Joseph Bodin de Boismortier's comic opera-ballet, Don Quichotte chez la Duchesse from 1743. [13], Platée appeared again at the Salle Favart in 1989 with Jean-Claude Malgoire as conductor,[12] and in 1999 it was staged at the Palais Garnier in Paris in a production by Laurent Pelly that was later released on DVD, with Jean-Paul Fouchécourt, then Paul Agnew, in the title part, conducted by Marc Minkowski. Formons les plus brillants concerts ; Quand Jupiter porte les fers De l’incomparable Platée, Je veux que les transports de son âme enchantée, S’expriment par mes chants divers. 2 0.0/10 0.0/10 0.0/10 - Platée, Act II, scene 5 ... of the Dauphin Louis, son of Louis XV, to the Infanta Maria Teresa of Spain–, reputedly a woman of little beauty, –Rameau is clearly enjoying himself. 0.0/10 *#353244 - 0.04MB, 1 pp. - (-) - V/V/V - 161×⇩ - Afp0815, Violin Part The sparklingly entertaining Platée is a flagship work of the Enlightenment, a jewel of Baroque opera and the most joyful and amusing of Rameau's creations. *#449674 - 1.11MB, ? 10 - Comédie lyrique en trois actes et un prologue. By La Cieca on September 09, 2020 at 11:39 AM Tambourin I – Tambourin II – Partez!," and many more. Directed by Don Kent. 10 *#353232 - 0.11MB, 5 pp. - 10 4 Rigaudon I – Rigaudon II – Fuyez, vents orageux!," "Les Indes galantes: Extract. 6 De fet, ni les òperes de Lully, Charpentier, Campra, Marais (la temporada passada s’havia programat Alcione) o Rameau són conegudes a Barcelona. *#353236 - 0.08MB, 2 pp. 0.0/10 *#330843 - 0.08MB, 1 pp. *#353250 - 0.05MB, 1 pp. he asks. 6 6 6 8 10 2 la folie. 6 0.0/10 8 [19] All four then lay out the plan. As people arrive for the marriage of Jupiter and Platée, a furious-at-being-tricked Juno has returned from Athens but she is persuaded to hide until the right moment. 0.0/10 10 - Citheron's solution is to propose the enactment of the plan put together by the four conspirators: Jupiter will pretend to fall in love with the ugly marsh nymph, Platée — who is convinced that everything that comes near her pond is madly in love with her — and, when Juno finds them together and about to marry, she will realize that her jealousy is baseless and the couple will be re-united. (-) - V/V/V - 5323×⇩ - Massenetique, PDF scanned by US-R (-) - !N/!N/!N - 1185×⇩ - Luciosilla, PDF typeset by editor *#330842 - 0.56MB, 8 pp. 0.0/10 The work received one performance at the marriage festivities at Versailles in 1745. Platée (Plataea) is an opera in a prologue and three acts by Jean-Philippe Rameau with a libretto by Adrien-Joseph Le Valois d'Orville. Buy the album for $9.99. 0.0/10 2 4 The opera was also staged by the Santa Fe Opera as part of the Summer 2007 Festival season in an adaptation of the Paris Opera production also directed by Laurent Pelly, with many of the same production team, and conducted by Harry Bicket. Massenetique (2011/11/18), Minuetto 6 4 4 With links to the role itself and the scenes in which the role plays, the opera and the composer. 6 Fxaguessy (2016/12/2), Engraving files (Mscz, MusicXML) Having sent Juno off to Athens, Mercury and Cithéron find a hiding place to observe the proceedings. Minuetto For Violin and Piano (Salmon) Gairebé 276 anys després de la seva estrena, Platée s’ha presentat al Liceu. 2 Comic opera was relatively rare during the Baroque era in France and the musicologist Cuthbert Girdlestone expresses his surprise that none of Rameau's contemporaries seem to have remarked on the innovative nature of Platée. Initially left out of the planning, a furious Cupid arrives on the scene and proclaims that it will be impossible to stage the event without him: "how could there be a play without the inspiration of love?" 4 10 8 (-) - V/V/V - 42×⇩ - Afp0815, Content is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License 8 2 4 In 2014 Platée had a new production at Vienna's Theater an der Wien and Paris' Opéra-Comique conducted by Paul Agnew[14] and directed by Robert Carsen.[12]. Momus appears, poorly disguised as Love, and offers "gifts" to Platée. [9] The 1754 revival was part of the continuing Querelle des Bouffons, pitted against Leonardo Leo's Italian opera buffa, I viaggiatori. Every scene contains a blend of iconoclastic topics, choruses, dancing and a liberal dose of irony. Platée is overjoyedat the thought of Jupiter’s love… She calls the birds and sings of her happiness, when finally the god appears before her. Milano: Paolo Mariani, 1900. In »Platée«, Rameau parodies the traditions of French baroque opera while at the same time presenting the courtly society of his time as an assortment of unscrupulous opportunists. 2 6 4 *#43642 - 0.13MB, 3 pp. 10 10 Platée arrives and waits for Jupiter. Aux langueurs d’Apollon, Daphné se refusa : L’Amour sur son tombeau, […] After Platée arrives, Mercury leaves to inform Jupiter. 2 10 The opera was also presented as a co-production of New York City Opera and the Mark Morris Dance Group, directed by Mark Morris during the 1997 Edinburgh Festival, a production that then toured to London and the USA. 6 Marcel Beekman, left, in the title role in Jean-Philippe Rameau's "Platée'' in Vienna. 0.0/10 8 - 4 6 [1] The ultimate source of the story is a myth related by the Greek writer Pausanias in his Guide to Greece. With its lively and rather cruel comedy, Platée seems a daring, even rash sort of choice for a concert performance, even with some comical stage business. The ultimate source of the story is a myth related by the Greek writer Pausanias in his Guide to Greece. The London performances, in a production by the English Bach Festival at Sadler's Wells, conducted by Jean-Claude Malgoire, featured Jean-Claude Orliac in the title role, with Henry Herford, Peter Jeffes and Marilyn Hill Smith. France : An un-magic 'Flute' [includes review of Platée]. Act III. 8 Songs start at $0.99. [5] The reason for this praise may be because these critics saw Platée, a comic opera, paving the way for the lighter form of opera buffa they favoured.[6]. 8 • Switch back to classic skin, Orchestre de Chambre des Concerts Lamoureux, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0, http://imslp.org/index.php?title=Plat%C3%A9e,_RCT_53_(Rameau,_Jean-Philippe)&oldid=2843660, Works first published in the 18th century, Pages with commercial recordings (Naxos collection), Pages with commercial recordings (BnF collection), Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License, Recorded Paris in May, 1960.