... Platée is a work unto itself: a "ballet bouffon", an outlandish comic opera in the trappings of lyric tragedy, with a nasty little plot and some of the most sublime music Rameau ever brought to light. Summary of the Action: Through the scheming of King Cithéron and Mercure, Platée the swamp nymph is wooed by Jupiter in order to expose and ridicule his wife Juno's raging jea......