Charles Gounod
A midsummer nightmare: one hot night in August Roméo and Juliette happen to meet. It is love at first sight, albeit a forbidden love because Juliette is to marry Pâris the next morning. But the power of love works like a drug, a dark, sweet poison whose effects are deadly…
With his adaptation of Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Charles Gounod (1818–1893) created one of the most moving versions for the opera stage. The very first bars of the overture clearly communicate the looming danger in a manner that gets under your skin. In four great duets he focusses with masterly skill on the couple’s burgeoning love and increasing passion. The result is a lyric drama that suggested entirely new ways forward for French opera in the 19th century – which can be seen at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in the interpretation of young director Philipp Westerbarkei, who following his rapturously received productions of Bernstein’s ‘Trouble in Tahiti’, Knussen’s ‘Where The Wild Things Are’ and Mozart’s ‘Magic Flute’ in Coburg, will also direct Puccini’s ‘La Bohème’ at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein this season.
Opera in Five Acts
Libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré after William Shakespeare’s tragedy ‘Romeo and Juliet’
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