Performances

 
Opera Project: Platée (1745), by Jean-Philippe Rameau
July 17, 2026, 8:00 pm

Production Staff
Music Director: Gary Wedow
Stage Director: Nell Snaidas
Dance Directors: Dorothy Olsson, Peggy Murray
Vocal Coach: Sherezade Panthaki

Diction Coach: Lawrence Rosenwald
Costumer: Ronnie Snader
  Sets and Props: Paul Guttry
Stage Manager: Betsy Chapman

Fully costumed and staged, with Baroque Academy singers, and orchestra. For more information see

Amherst Early Music, Baroque Academy Opera Project.

A presentation by Amherst Early Music Festival participants of French and English Baroque dances
recreated from Beauchamps-Feuillet notation.

Dance Coaches: Dorothy Olsson, Peggy Murray, Jen Meller

For this year's Saturday show, we will offer a "menu" of dances from which dancers
may select choreographies to study during the second morning class for presentation
on Saturday. Dance notations will be provided in advance (date forthcoming)
so dancers can become familiar with the repertoire before the festival.

Please choose one dance from Group A and one from Group B.
(LMC numbers refer to the Little-Marsh Catalog: Meredith Elllis Little & Carol G. Marsh,
La Danse Noble: An Inventory of Dances and Sources [Broude Brothers, 1992].)

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 Group A (rehearsed simultaneously in separate studios)

• LMC #8280 La Vandangevses, Rigaudon, Pécour, duet — intermediate
or
• LMC #5780 Menuet performed by Mrs. Santlow, L'Abbé, solo — more advanced

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 Group B (rehearsed simultaneously in separate studios)

• LMC #5400 La Matelotte, Feuillet, duet —  intermediate
or
• LMC #6160 La Muszette à deux, Pécour, duet —  more advanced

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For the Saturday morning performance, dancers may perform two dances, or perform
  one and study/practice the other. Performing an excerpt rather than a complete dance
is also fine. Those who prefer not to perform may study/practice one or both dances.

The program will conclude with a group contredanse learned during the week.

(Photos by Paul R. Johnson, Kaspar D. Mainz, & Adeline Mueller)