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 : 48.804798

Longitude : 2.120273

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

Event Organizer

Château de Versailles Spectacles

Phone : +33 1 30 83 78 89

"Château de Versailles Spectacles"

Location

Opéra Royal

3 Pl. Léon Gambetta, 78000 Versailles

78000

Versailles

Réservation

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!