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Opera – PlatéeOpera – Platée
Opera

Platée

Jean-Philippe Rameau

Premiere performances: 21 and 23 November 2024 at the State Opera

The State Opera
Premiere production
English surtitles

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    November 2024

    Thursday 21. 11.
    19:00

    Tickets available

    Featured programme ND+
    1. premiere
    Premiere
    Premiere production
    English surtitles

    Saturday 23. 11.
    19:00

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    2. premiere
    Premiere
    Premiere production
    English surtitles

    Saturday 30. 11.
    18:00

    Tickets available

    Featured programme ND+
    Premiere production
    English surtitles
    December 2024

    Friday 6. 12.
    19:00

    Tickets available

    Premiere production
    English surtitles

    Wednesday 11. 12.
    19:00

    Tickets available

    Premiere production
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    Friday 20. 12.
    19:00

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    Premiere production
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    June 2025

    Sunday 1. 6.
    19:00

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    Basic information

    Venue

    The State Opera

    Approximate running time

    3 hours, 1 intermission (20 minutes) minutes

    Language

    In French, surtitles in Czech, English

    Premiere

    November 21, 2024

    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 guru of 18th-century French opera: 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.

    Cast

    • 2024-2025

    About

    Collegium Vocale 1704
    State Opera Orchestra
    National Theatre Opera Ballet

    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 …

    Our 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.

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      Where to buy tickets

      The National Theatre sells tickets up to 6 months in advance. We are currently selling tickets for performances of Drama, Ballet, Opera and Laterna magika taking place in October 2024 – March 2025.


      When purchasing online, you can get an e-ticket. You can pick up printed tickets in person at the box offices of the National Theatre.

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      By their appearance, attire and behaviour, the audience is obliged to adhere to the accustomed practice expected from them when attending a theatre performance.

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