Review: Platee, directed by Neil Armfiled, Pinchgut Opera French master composer and theorist Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) created the opera Platee for the wedding of Louis, Dauphin of France, son of King Louis XV of France, and the Infanta Maria Theresa of Spain. The work challenged the traditional French opera of the time, the tragedie lyrique by subverting Greek mythological characters and infusing 1