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.
Studio Dance Presentation: From Folio to Studio
July 18, 2026, 11:00 am (in the Dance Studio)
A
presentation by Amherst Early Music Festival participants of French and
English Baroque dances recreated from Beauchamps-Feuillet
notation.
(Photos by Paul R. Johnson, Kaspar D. Mainz, & Adeline Mueller)