Roméo et Juliette – Charles Gounod Programme – Season 2017/18
€8.00
Charles Gounod’s 5 act opera Roméo et Juliette was staged for the very first time in the GNO’s history in February 2018 and is the first of a series of works from the French repertoire which have been presented by the GNO over the next 3 years.
Thanks to the work’s amazing melodic wealth it was a hit from its first performance in Paris in 1867 and to this day remains by far the most popular version of the Shakespearean drama set to music.
Although it focuses on the main pair, the opera’s crowd scenes with their impressive choral pieces, and the dance scenes too, bring a certain radiance and flare to the work, adding a phantasmagorical aspect to it which has contributed to its popularity.
The GNO’s production was directed by the leading theatrical director Nikos Mastorakis, who was presenting his work for lyrical theatre for the first time.
The sets and costumes for the production are by the acclaimed German designer Johannes Schütz, whose name has been associated with top performances by some of Europe’s leading theatres (London, Berlin, and Paris, to name a few) and some of Europe’s largest operas (Berlin, Frankfurt, Lyon, Salzburg, London, and Amsterdam, to name a few).
