Gounod's romantic and rapturous music sets the stage for this tale of star-crossed lovers, based on Shakespeare’s play about the feuding Montague and Capulet families in Verona. Roméo Montague and his ...
Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Performed in French with English translations above the stage, Roméo et ...
Diana Damrau and Vittorio Grigolo star as the tragic lovers in Shakespeare’s classic story. Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette airs on Great Performances at the Met Friday, April 14 at 9PM on PBS. (Check ...
For those still wondering what West Side Story has to do with opera, Vancouver Opera is now running a real one, Charles Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette. There has been so much R and J recently (counting ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick Bartlett Sher’s middling production returned to the Metropolitan Opera, with a glorious Benjamin Bernheim and Nadine Sierra in the title ...
It has been 30 years since Roméo et Juliette has graced the Canadian Opera Company’s stage. Was it worth the wait? Yes, with caveats. Charles Gounod’s 1867 opera, based on Shakespeare’s eponymous star ...
Promotional material for Chinese version of Roméo & Juliette Photo: Courtesy of Guo Baodan Promotional material for Chinese version of Roméo & Juliette Photo: Courtesy of Guo Baodan Promotional ...
Opera should be a direct, emotional, moving experience: I say it all the time. So it would be churlish — even contradictory — for me to carp at the Wolf Trap Opera’s production of “Roméo & Juliette,” ...