Christophe Rousset is a William Christie protegé who in 1991 set up Les Talens Lyriques, a small theatrically driven baroque music ensemble which injects new life into old operas with the delicately ...

Pink, voguing, drag, stiletto heels, opera, seeing that list, you may feel that opera seems out of place, but you couldn't be more wrong. On July 10, Des Moines Metro Opera (DMMO) took all those and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Platée, at Garsington Opera - Alastair Muir Comic opera can be cruel, but it is hard to think of any that is quite so brutal as ...

Garsington Opera’s 2024 season begins with a production of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Platée. We interviewed its director. An undoubted highlight of the 2024 Summer Festival Opera season will be ...

First staged as part of a royal wedding celebration at Versailles in 1745, Jean-Philippe Rameau’s opera was originally described as a ‘comédie ballet’ or a ‘comédie lyrique’; Garsington calls it ...

French master composer and theorist Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) created the opera Platée for the wedding of Louis, Dauphin of France, son of King Louis XV of France, and the Infanta Maria Theresa ...

The Only Way is Ancient Rome in this retelling of Rameau’s 1745 opera with Samuel Boden captivating in the title role To the left: a tiled hot tub and mini colonnade. To the right: a show-home bar ...

Pinchgut Opera is celebrating its birthday with the most lavish, spectacular production in its 20-year history, a rollicking 18th-century opera described by artistic director Erin Helyard as a ...

Everyone's favorite marsh nymph -- the froggy, self-delusional Platee -- is back in Berkeley for a brief sojourn, and Baroque opera has never been so colorful or deliriously funny.

Rameau’s opera has a deeply unpleasant plot, but Garsington’s exuberantly vulgar, expertly sung staging makes it fly Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose works ...