Each month we take a look at the highlights coming up in online streaming as well as on ABC Classic and the independent radio stations ArtSound, Fine Music Sydney, 3MBS, 4MBS and 5MBS.

Platée – Pinchgut Opera 

A riotous production of Rameau’s comedy directed by Neil Armfield – by Deborah Jones

Despite Jean-Philippe Rameau taking a prologue and three acts to tell his comédie lyrique, it can be summarised quickly. Top god Jupiter is persuaded it would be a fun idea to teach his jealous wife Juno a lesson by seemingly entering into marriage with Platée, a spirited but misguided marsh-nymph rather less beautiful than she thinks and thus ripe for exploitation. That’s it. The underlying message is that powerful people can be capricious and cruel and the powerless are the ones who suffer.