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Audience (Original title in French, Plated ) it’s a Bouffon ballet In three acts with music by Jean-Philippe Rameau and French libretto of Adrien-Joseph Valois d’Orville. Rameau bought the rights of the libretto Platée or jealous juno ( Platea, or jealous juno ) by Jacques Autreau (1657–1745) and made D’Orville modify it. [ 4 ] The source of history is a myth related by the Greek writer Pausanias in his Description of Greece .

This is Rameau’s first attempt in the field of comic opera. The plot refers to an ugly aquatic nymph that believes that Jupiter, the king of the gods, is in love with her. [ 5 ] The work was called at the beginning Bouffon ballet , although later a lyric comedy , putting it in the same category as Paladins also from Rameau. It was written for the celebrations of the wedding of Luis, El Delfín, son of King Louis XV of France, with the Infanta María Teresa of Spain, who, according to contemporary sources, as the character that gives title to the opera, was no beauty . Instead of putting the composer in trouble, entertainment in Versailles seems to have been well received, and Rameau was appointed a few months later composer of the king’s camera with considerable annual pension.

The opera was interpreted for the first time on March 31, 1745 in the Grande Écurie, Versailles. Currently, this opera is represented little; in the Operabase statistics The No. 231 of the operas represented in 2005-2010 appears, being the 28th in France and the first of Rameau, with 11 representations in the period.

Paper Tesitura Cast of the premiere [ 6 ] ​
March 31, 1745
(Director: – ) 		Cast of the second version [ 7 ] ​
February 9, 1749
(Director: – )
Prólogo: the birth of comedy/ The birth of comedy
Thespis, comedy inventor high-tale
(Ther high) 		Jean-Paul Spesoller known as La Tour Or Latour François Poirier
Momus god of satire low baritone Albert [ 8 ] ​ Lamarre (also written the Marre) [ 8 ] ​
Thalie, Comedy Muse soprano Marie like Marie-Angélique Coupé
Love/ Amor soprano Marie-Angélique Coupé
(also written Couppé or Coupée) 		M.lle Rosalie [ 8 ] ​
A satire/ A satyr low baritone Benoit [ 8 ] ​ Person [ 8 ] ​
Harvest/ harvesting girls sopranos M.Lles Carro and Dalman [ 8 ] ​ M.lles Carrou y chefdeville [ 8 ] ​
Ballet ( lyric comedy )
Cithéron, King of the Mountain Low baritone François Le page (also written lepage) François Le Page
Mercure / Mercury, The messenger god high-tale Jean Antoine Bérard François Poirier
Plated, UN Dropplane high-tale Pierre Jélyotte Tower
Clarine, Platea maiden soprano M.lle Bourbonnais [ 8 ] ​ Marie-Angélique Coupé
A niade/ A Náyade, another Platée maiden soprano M.Lle Metz [ 8 ] ​ ?
Jupiter (Zeus), King of the gods Low baritone Claude-Louis-Dominique chased from Chinais Person
Folie/ madness soprano Marie like Marie like
Junon/ Juno, Jupiter’s wife soprano Marie-Jeanne Fil, ” M.lle Chevalier Louise Jacquet
Momus size (baritenor)
or low baritone 		Louis-Antoine Cuvillier
(also written Cuvilliers or Cuvelier) 		Lamarre
Iris despite [ 9 ] ​ ?
Animals, scholars, choirs, dancers

After a swap night, the choir wakes Tespis of his drunk dream. When Talía and Momo arrive, a ridiculous god, they seek the help of Tespis to plan the presentation of a show in which they will recreate an ancient attempt by Jupiter to cure his wife, Juno, of his jealousy. Initially excluded from the plan, love arrives furious saying that it will be impossible to represent the event without it: “How can there be a work without the inspiration of love?” ask. [ ten ] The four establish the plan.

Act i [ To edit ]

Mercury descends from the heavens and explains to Citerón that the storm is caused by Juno’s jealousy and that Jupiter has sent him to find a way to remove the problem from the head. Citerón’s solution is that Jupiter intends to fall in love with the ugly nymph of the swamps, stalls, and when Juno finds them together and about to marry, she will realize that her jealousy lacks the base and the couple will be together again.

Platea is delighted to hear Mercury say that Jupiter will soon descend from heaven to declare his love.

Act II [ To edit ]

Accompanied by Momo, Jupiter arrives, revealing himself first as an ass, then like an owl, and finally, in person wrapped in thunder and bright light. A broad divertissment during which the folie (madness) sings the story of Apollo and Dafne as a warm that is not involved with Jupiter. The dancers and the singers, alternately, praise and make fun of Platea.

Acto 3 [ To edit ]

As people arrive for the marriage of Jupiter and Platea, a juno, furious for being deceived, returns from Athens, but convince her to hide until the appropriate moment. Momo appears, badly disguised as love, and offers “gifts” to Platea. Jupiter and Platea begin the bridal ceremony. Juno arrives and takes away his veil in Platea, and then realizes that everything has been a joke. The gods ascend to heaven and the humiliated stalls jumps back to their swamp.

Discography [ To edit ]

  • Hans Rosbaud (Director) / Michel Sénéchal, Jeanine Micheau, Nicolai Gedda, Jacques Jansen. Conservatory company orchestra (1956). Emi
  • Marc Minkowski (director) / Gilles Ragon (Plated), Bernard Deletré, Jennifer Smith, Vincent Le Texier, Guy de Mey. The Musicians of the Louvre (1989). Wea International
  • Marc Minkowski (director) / Gilles Ragon (Plated), Vincent Le Texier (Jupiter) , Guillemette Laurens (Juno). Les Musiciens du Louvre, vocal set Françoise Herr (1991). Erato
  • Marc Minkowski (Director) / Paul Agnew, Mireille Deluns, Yann Beuron, Vincent Le Texier, Laurent Naouri. Ópera nacional de parís, orquesta y coro de les musicians du Louvre – Grenoble (2003). Kultur

References [ To edit ]

Grades
  1. ↑ Pierre de Jelyotte (1713 – 1797): French singer and composer.
  2. ↑ Visual Opera Guide , Sword.
  3. ↑ Riding, Alan; Dunton-Downer, Leslie (2008). Espasa visual guides: opera (1.ª edicon). Espasa Calpe, S.A. P. 82. ISBN 978-84-670-2605-4 .
  4. ↑ Girdlestone p.436
  5. ↑ Viking p.838
  6. ↑ According to Branch the site (Access October 2, 2010)
  7. ↑ according to The magazine of the Baroque Opera Archived On March 1, 2014 at Wayback Machine. (Access October 3, 2010)
  8. ↑ a b c d It is f g h i Unknown battery name
  9. ↑ according to Branch the site , this silent role is attributed to Cuvillier, as well as the singer of Momus, but it seems impossible, because both characters appear together on the scene
  10. ↑ Mays,P.5
Bibliography
  • Alexandre, Ivan A., CD notes Plated Directed by Marc Minkowski
  • Girdlestone, Cuthbert, Jean-Philippe Rameau: His Life and Work , New York: Dover Publications, 1969 ISBN 0-486-21416-8
  • Holden, Amanda, et al. (eds.), The Viking Opera Guide , Londres: Viking, 1993 ISBN 0-670-81292-7
  • Mays, Desirée, “Platée”, Opera Unveiled , Volumen 9, Santa Fe: Art Forms Inc., 2007 ISBN 978-0-9707822-6-7
  • Sadler, Graham, et al., The New Grove French Baroque Masters: Lully, Carpenter, Lalande, Couperin, Rameau , Scranton, Pennsylvania: Norton & Co, 1986 ISBN 0-393-30352-7

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