RAMEAU Platée, Early Opera Company, Paul Agnew, St John’s Smith Square, London

Walker has performed Platée on stage and his experience showed in his confident (despite the frock), even macho negotiation of some fearsomely high-lying music and in expressing not just Platée’s vanity and grossness (guttural consonants spat into various faces) but also her likeability…Walker’s virtuoso turn…