A swamp nymph gets catfished by a god and somehow becomes opera's most iconic chaos queen.
Platée, a silly and conceited nymph, falls for a fake wedding to Jupiter, king of the gods. This new staging of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Baroque masterpiece is colourful, eccentric, full of wit and free of taboos, yet also surprisingly deep. Filmed 1st june 2025 at Czech National Theatre, Prague
Production
SKUTR's staging turns Baroque excess into contemporary visual overload.
Costume
Platée's frog-nymph looks — committed, unhinged, unforgettable.
Acting
Olga Jelínková nails tragicomic vanity without winking.
Director
SKUTR
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rameau wrote Platée in 1745 as a wedding entertainment for the Dauphin — the original audience literally watched a nymph get humiliated at a royal wedding.
This Czech production restores the opera's bite: modern stagings often soften Platée's mockery, but SKUTR leans into its queerness and class satire.
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