Gounod's Romeo and Juliet
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Performed at Salzburg Festival 2008
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 at the exceeding ambience of the Felsenreitschule. Rolando Villazón, one of the leading lyric tenors of our day and has been acclaimed for performances at leading theatres across the world, acts as Romeo. It’s his first TV opera performance after his disease. The young French-Canadian conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, music director designate of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, conducts for the first time in Salzburg.
Cast:
Nino Surguladze (Juliette)
Rolando Villazòn (Romèo)
Mikhail Petrenko (Frère Laurent)
Russell Braun (Mercutio)
Cora Burggraaf (Stèphano)
Falk Struckmann
(Le Comte & Capulet)
Juna Francisco Gatell (Tybalt)Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Director: Bartlett Sher
Production Team:
Sets: Michael Yeargan
Costumes: Catherine Zuber
Lights: Jennifer Tipton
Video: Salzburg Festival Trailer (From Emerging Pictures)
