Romeo and Juliet, Opera Bastille, Paris: 14 June-15 July 2023

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Charles Gounod's adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is one of the highlights of the Paris Opera 2022-2023 season. Book your tickets in advance.

Charles Gounod's Roméo et Juliette, an incomparable masterpiece of the French repertoire, makes its grand return to the Paris Opera stage after a forty-year absence. Skilfully combining opéra-comique and grand romantic opera, and playing on all registers, from the most brilliant to the most dramatic, the composer proposes music of extreme refinement and a highly elegant declamatory style. Carlo Rizzi directs a cast of the finest French and international singers, in a production by the Shakespeare specialist Thomas Jolly.

  • Romeo and Juliet

    Opera in five acts (1887)

    By William Shakespeare

    • Music:

      Charles Gounod - (1818 - 1893)

    • Libretto:

      Jules Barbier

      Michel Carré

    • Conductor:

      Carlo Rizzi

    • Chorus master:

      Ching-Lien Wu

    • Artistic collaboration:

      Katja Krüger

    • Director:

      Thomas Jolly

    • Set design:

      Bruno de Lavenère

    • Costume design:

      Sylvette Dequest

    • Lighting design:

      Antoine Travert

    • Dramaturgy:

      Katja Krüger

    • Juliette:

      • Elsa Dreisig

        17, 20, 23, 26, 29 June ‑ 3, 6, 9, 12 July

      • Pretty Yende

        27, 30 June ‑ 4, 7, 11, 15 July

    • Stephano:

      • Léa Desandre

        17 > 27 June

      • Marina Viotti

        29 juin > 15 July

    • Roméo:

      • Benjamin Bernheim

        17, 20, 23, 26, 29 June – 3, 6, 9, 12 July

      • Francesco Demuro

        27, 30 June – 4, 7, 11, 15 July

    • Tybalt:

      • Maciej Kwaśnikowski

    • Benvolio:

      • Thomas Ricart

    • Mercutio:

      • Huw Montague Rendall

        17 > 30 June

      • Florian Sempey

        3 > 15 July

    • Pâris:

      • Sergio Villegas Galvain

    • Gregorio:

      • Yiorgo Ioannou

    • Capulet:

      • Laurent Naouri

    • Frère Laurent:

      • Jean Teitgen

    • Capulet:

      • Laurent Naouri

    • Frère Laurent:

      • Jean Teitgen

    • Le Duc de Vérone:

      • Jérôme Boutillier

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