"After seeing this revival , I find the entire staging to be a brilliant, well thought out representation of Rameau's opera-ballet. Pelly, along with his designer Chantal Thomas, and choreographer Laura Scozzi, have come up with a constantly amusing reimagining of a masterpiece of the French Baroque era. They manage to pay tribute to the performing traditions and satirize them at the same time ... Lawrence Brownlee is touchingly absurd as the ugly water nymph Platée ... His tone is more substantial than that of any other singer that I have heard in this role ... Julie Fuchs seems to be one of the more important French sopranos these days. As Folie she delivers a knockout performance of a character"