Review: Platée, directed by Neil Armfiled, Pinchgut Opera French master composer and theorist Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) created the opera Pl
Review: Platée, directed by Neil Armfiled, Pinchgut Opera French master composer and theorist Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) created the opera Pl
Seeing off a pushy god is a walk in the park
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Apollo loves Dafne but Dafne really doesn’t need Apollo – or any bloke for that matter – in her life right now. She feels so strongly on the matter that she turns herself into a tree in a drastic ruse to avoid the attentions of the overly persistent god.
In the early part of the 17th century, Venetian composer Roberto Cavalli retold the Greek myth in
The Loves of Apollo and Dafne, one of the first operas written. And now that timeless tale of pushy men and their unwanted attentions is being staged in Australia for the first time by specialist Baroque company Pinchgut Opera.