Gounod's Roméo et Juliette: Paris Opera
About the Event
Gounod's interpretation of Shakespeare's famous play comes back to the Paris Opera in a staging by Thomas Jolly and an extraordinary cast.
One glance is all it takes for Romeo and Juliet to fall in love. But their passion collides with the ancestral hatred dividing their families in a Verona on the brink of implosion.
Although Charles Gounod had been attracted to Shakespeare’s play from a young age, it was only some twenty years later, after the success of Faust, that he set about transforming it into an opera.
Premiered during the 1867 Exposition universelle, the opera was an immediate popular success. Four love duets, a passionate waltz, luminous music: the entire score quivers with desire.
Who better than Thomas Jolly, one of the most inventive directors of his generation to celebrate this hymn to youth? A connoisseur of Shakespeare, he captures the emotions of adolescence while reintroducing a crucial element from the play: the plague epidemic which infuses the characters with an urgency to live and love.
Cast / Production
Music :
Charles Gounod — (1818 — 1893)
Libretto :
Jules Barbier
Michel Carré
Musical direction :
Fabien Gabel
Chorus Master :
Alessandro di Stefano
Artistic collaboration :
Katja Krüger
Director :
Thomas Jolly
Set design :
Bruno de Lavenère
Costumes :
Sylvette Dequest
Lighting :
Antoine Travert
Dramaturgy :
Katja Krüger
cast
Amina Edris
Juliette (7 19 June)
Nadine Sierra
Juliette (22 June 10 July)
Pene Pati
Roméo (7 28 June)
Juan Diego Flórez
Roméo (1 10 July)
Seray Pinar
Stephano (7 28 June)
Maria Warenberg
Stephano (1 10 July)
Sylvie Brunet‐Grupposo
Gertrude
Julien Henric
Tybalt
Matthew Goodheart
Benvolio
Leon Košavić
Mercutio
Trevor Haumschilt‐Rocha
Pâris
Amin Ahangaran
Gregorio
Jérôme Boutillier
Capulet
Jean Teitgen
Frère Laurent
Vartan Gabrielian
Le Duc de Vérone
The Paris Opera Orchestra and Chorus
