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Opéra Royal - Rameau: PLATEE
Monday 13 April 2026
20:00 to 22:00
From Wednesday 15 to Thursday 16 April 2026
Wednesday, Thursday
20:00 to 22:00
Saturday 18 April 2026
19:00 to 21:00
Sunday 19 April 2026
15:00 to 17:00
Location : Opéra Royal
Destination
3 Pl. Léon Gambetta, 78000 Versailles
78000
Versailles
GPS coordinates
Latitude : 48.805146
Longitude : 2.122956
BY CAR
Motorway A13 - Versailles Notre-Dame exit
Motorway 186 - Versailles Centre exit
Free "Place d'armes" parking from 19:00
BY TRAIN
Gare Montparnasse > Gare Versailles Chantiers
Dreux, Mantes-la-Jolie, Rambouillet direction
Gare St. Lazare > Gare Versailles Rive Droite
Rive Droite direction
Paris RER C > Gare Versailles Rive Gauche - Château
Rive Gauche Château direction
Pont de Sèvres - Bus 171 > Versailles Château stop
Motorway A13 - Versailles Notre-Dame exit
Motorway 186 - Versailles Centre exit
Free "Place d'armes" parking from 19:00
BY TRAIN
Gare Montparnasse > Gare Versailles Chantiers
Dreux, Mantes-la-Jolie, Rambouillet direction
Gare St. Lazare > Gare Versailles Rive Droite
Rive Droite direction
Paris RER C > Gare Versailles Rive Gauche - Château
Rive Gauche Château direction
Pont de Sèvres - Bus 171 > Versailles Château stop
Event Organizer
Château de Versailles Spectacles
Location
Opéra Royal
3 Pl. Léon Gambetta, 78000 Versailles
78000
Versailles
Presentation
Revival of the opera-ballet Platée.
1745: Louis XV marries his son, the Dauphin Louis, to the Infanta of Spain, Marie-Thérèse. For the festivities surrounding this royal wedding, a new work commissioned from Rameau is performed in the Grande Écurie de Versailles, which has been transformed into a temporary theatre: the lyric comedy Platée. This grand opera buffa, in which the gods play a joke on a frog by making it believe that it is loved by Jupiter, is undoubtedly the most extraordinary musical comedy of 18th-century France – even if the audience at the premiere thought they recognised the ugly little Spanish princess in the croaking heroine!
This extraordinary score establishes inventive and unexpected rhythms, carried by a dazzling orchestra. It offers La Folie its share of Italian virtuosity, while the title role composes a character unique in operatic history. The latter is entrusted to a countertenor who must be prepared to embody... a frog, queen of the marshes.
The infernal trio of Niquet, Shirley and Dino, having avenged Purcell in King Arthur and rejuvenated Boismortier thanks to Don Quichotte, now don their boots to descend into the swamp of Platée and deliver their version, which is as zany as it is ‘historically informed’, as it should be!
This extraordinary score establishes inventive and unexpected rhythms, carried by a dazzling orchestra. It offers La Folie its share of Italian virtuosity, while the title role composes a character unique in operatic history. The latter is entrusted to a countertenor who must be prepared to embody... a frog, queen of the marshes.
The infernal trio of Niquet, Shirley and Dino, having avenged Purcell in King Arthur and rejuvenated Boismortier thanks to Don Quichotte, now don their boots to descend into the swamp of Platée and deliver their version, which is as zany as it is ‘historically informed’, as it should be!
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