Platée

Date:	June 15, 2025 \| 19:00 (Sun)
Venue:	Prague State Opera
Duration:	120 minutes
Intermission:	Yes (20 minutes)
Status:	Available
Reviews:	(1)

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Baroque opera delivered by the esteemed Collegium Vocale 1704, the State Opera Orchestra and the National Theatre Opera Ballet

In French, surtitles in Czech, English

After 15 years, a Baroque opera is returning to the National Theatre repertoire, and after a full quarter-century the National Theatre will stage a work by Jean-Philippe Rameau, the globally renowned comédie lyrique Platée, which, however, has never before been performed in the entire history of the National Theatre and the State Opera, and its predecessor, the Neues deutsches Theater.

In 1745, Louis XV selected the comedy about an ugly nymph, enticed to believe that Jupiter, the king of the gods, has fallen in love with her, as one of the three operas for the celebrations of his son’s wedding to the Infanta María Teresa of Spain. Given that the bride is said to have been no beauty, we can speculate as to whether the choice of Rameau’s opera was the monarch’s spiteful prank – if that indeed was the case, it was fitting (and improper) for other reasons too. Platée not only pokes fun at a foolish, graceless sprite, it also ridicules the “holy” social institute of matrimony: the pathologically jealous wives and the timid yet resourceful husbands, who, albeit being Olympian gods, face diverse partnership troubles …

The production has been undertaken by the SKUTR stage directors’ tandem, who drew inspiration from the fact that the world premiere of Rameau’s Platée took place within a wedding, as well as the opera’s allegoric Prologue, in which Comedy engenders from wine ...

So come and see what a “Baroque” wedding has to offer.

Performing:

Collegium Vocale 1704
State Opera Orchestra
National Theatre Opera Ballet

Important:

The purchased tickets cannot be returned or exchanged
There is a screen with subtitles on each seat
20 min. intermission
No discounts are provided
Theatre is a cultural institution. Please respect the common principles of appropriate behaviour and clothing
The program may be subject to change
The price includes service fee of 3,7 € (100,- CZK)

Baroque orchestra Collegium 1704 - program and tickets

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Prague State Opera

Address:	Wilsonova 4 , Praha 1
Capacity:	989
Type:	Theatre
Winter heating:	Yes
Wheelchair access:	Yes

Prague State Opera is one of the most important music scenes in Europe & one of the stages of The National Theatre

Visit the recently re-opened and newly refurbished grand opera house with a noteworthy history where many world renown artists have worked here making each performance a prime cultural event.

History:

This Neo-classical edifice was built in 1883 by the German Theatre Association as a reaction of German minority in Prague to the opening of the Prague National Theatre. As the New German Theatre it soon gained international acclaim for its inovative repertoire and artistic leadership including such names as Angelo Neumann, Alexander Zemlinski or Georg Szell.

Nowadays, famous operas, as well as pieces unjustly overlooked or unknown in the Czech Republic are introduced in the State Opera gaining the theatre a reputation of one of the best European scenes where you can enjoy watching mainly opera and ballet performances.

How to get there:

Accessibility by public transport:
metro A (green line) or C (red line) - Muzeum station
Nearest car parking:
Garage Museum, Wilsonova 732/6, Prague 1

Please note:

There is a screen with subtitles on each seat.

Overall rating:

Theresa Martin | November 21, 2024 | 19:00 (Thu)

Awesome display of talent from the lead vocalists and the ballet. The cast did an excellent job. The subject matter was somewhat less interesting to me than I thought it would be but still thought provoking. I’m glad I expanded my frame of reference to include this classic.