ROMÉO ET JULIETTE (GOUNOD)

Sun, Feb 1 at 11 am - Encore Thurs, Feb 5 at 7:00 pm

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With its four duets for the title couple, Charles Gounod’s ROMÉO ET JULIETTE is one of the most famous love tragedies in opera literature. Stage director Bartlett Sher (winner of this year’s best director of a musical Tony Award for his revival of South Pacific on Broadway) makes his European opera debut with this production of ROMÉO ET JULIETTE. Rolando Villazón, one of the leading lyric tenors of our day and acclaimed for his performances at leading theatres across the world, acts as Romeo. As Julia is the young Georgian soprano Nino Machaizde, who made her La Scala debut in 2006 as Najade in Ariadne auf Naxos under the baton of Jeffrey Tate. The young French-Canadian conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, music director designate of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, conducts for the first time in Salzburg.

Opera in 5 acts, approx 3h. Performed at Salzburg Festival, August 2008

Music: Charles Gounod; Libretto: Jules Barbier, Michel Carré; Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Directed: Bartlett Sher; Sets: Michael Yeargan; Costumes: Catherine Zuber; Lights : Jennifer Tipton

Cast - Nino Machaidze, soprano: Juliette; Rolando Villazòn, tenor: Romèo; Mikhail Petrenko, bass: Frère Laurent; Russell Braun, baritone: Mercutio; Cora Burggraaf, mezzo-soprano: Stèphano; Falk Struckmann, bass-baritone: Le Comte Capulet; Juna Francisco Gatell, tenor: Tybalt 

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