Romeo and Juliette (Gounod) IN SGC DUNGARVAN JAN 9th 2010
Posted by SGC CINEMA DUNGARVAN on December 6, 2009
ROMÉO ET JULIETTE (Gounod)
Opera in HD From Salzburg
Now Booking
9th Jan 10 @ 7pm
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. As Juliette acts 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.
ROMÉO ET JULIETTE (GOUNOD)
Opera in 5 acts
Music: Charles Gounod Libretto Jules Barbier, Michel Carré
Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin Directed: Bartlett Sher
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
