Roméo et Juliette

Romeo and Juliet Charles Gounod Opéra Bastille Duration: 3h15 with 1 intermission Language: French Subtitles: French / English It takes just one glance for Romeo and Juliet to fall in love.

But their passion runs into the ancestral hatred that binds their families in a Verona on the brink of implosion.

Though Charles Gounod was attracted to Shakespeare's play from his youth, it wasn't until around twenty years later, crowned with the success of Faust, that he undertook setting it to music. Created during the 1867 Universal Exposition, the opera won immediate popular success.

Four love duets, a fiery waltz, luminous music: the entire score trembles with desire. Who better than Thomas Jolly, one of the most inventive directors of his generation, could celebrate this hymn to youth?

This fine Shakespeare connoisseur restores the adolescent emotions while reintroducing into the opera a crucial element of the play: the plague epidemic that injects the characters with urgency to live and love.

Fabien Gabel Musical direction Thomas Jolly Stage direction Amina Edris Juliet (7 > 19 June) Nadine Sierra Juliet (22 June > 10 July) Pene Pati Romeo (7 > 28 June) Juan Diego Flórez Romeo (1 > 10 July) Seray Pinar Stephano (7 > 28 June) Maria Warenberg Stephano (1 > 10 July) Sylvie Brunet-Grupposo Gertrude Julien Henric Tybalt Matthew Goodheart Benvolio Leon Košavić Mercutio Trevor Haumschilt-Rocha Paris Amin Ahangaran Gregorio Jérôme Boutillier Capulet Jean Teitgen Friar Lawrence Vartan Gabrielian The Duke of Verona