Hello salon, yesterday I watched Platée at the Gothenburg Opera House, which is an opera first performed to celebrate the wedding of Louis, Dauphin of France, son of King Louis XV, to the Infanta María Teresa Rafaela of Spain in 1745 (according to Wikipedia). While I have watched operas before, it is not a genre that I am used to. Thus while I enjoyed the music and the spectacle, I thought the plot dragged agonizingly slow. Voltaire didn't like it, also according to Wikipedia.
Selena, do you have any background for this? The thing that really makes me wonder is that the main character of the opera is an ugly swamp nymph who thinks she's going to get married to Jupiter. And apparently the RL bride was not supposed to be very good looking? How on earth did the writer dare to do such a thing?
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Platée
Date: 2024-04-04 10:19 am (UTC)Selena, do you have any background for this? The thing that really makes me wonder is that the main character of the opera is an ugly swamp nymph who thinks she's going to get married to Jupiter. And apparently the RL bride was not supposed to be very good looking? How on earth did the writer dare to do such a thing?