Summary
Platee. Music by Jean-Philippe Rameau. Libretto by Adrien-Joseph Le Valois d'Orville after the play Platee, ou Junon jalouse by Jacques Autreau. Premiered March 31, 1745, Versailles. Original setting: a marshland in ancient Greece. SFO production setting: a heavenly theater.
The ancient gods were never ones to miss a chance at fun, be it sexual, comedic, or cruel. In Platee, Jupiter pretends to be in love with the hideously ugly water nymph of the title to convince his wife, Juno, that her jealousy is misplaced. In the original legend, Platee was a comely naiad whom Zeus spirited away from her river- god father and took to Mount Kithairon in Boeotia.See the full content of this document
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Frogs, Gods, and Men in Bras
Oh what fools these mortals be -- and the amphibians aren't much smarter! -- ancient folk plateetude
Legend has it that the Infanta Maria Theresa of Spain was no looker. In 1745 she was engaged to marry Louis, dauphin of France and the son of King Louis XV. Imagine the royal court...See the full content of this document
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