Organization

Dirección orquestal

Dirección orquestal (+1)

Andriy Yurkevych

Dirección de escena

Dirección de escena (+1)

Sláva Daubnerová

Escenografía

Juraj Kuchárek

Diseño de vestuario

Martin Kotúček

Coreografía

Stanislava Vlčeková

Iluminación

Iluminación (+2)

Daniel Tesař

Video

Lukáš Kodoň

Dirección coral

Adolf Melichar

Dramaturgo

Jitka Slavíková

Soprano (+1)

Jana Sibera

Julieta

Tenor (+3)

Petr Nekoranec

Romeo

Bajo (+3)

Roman Vocel

Fray Lorenzo

Barítono (+3)

Lukáš Bařák

Mercucio

Mezzosoprano (+3)

Arnheiður Eiríksdóttir

Stéfano

Tenor (+4)

Daniel Matoušek

Tibaldo

Mezzosoprano (+2)

Sylva Čmugrová

Gertrude

Bajobarítono (+3)

Miloš Horák

Conde Capuleto

Martin Matoušek

Grigorio

Tenor (+5)

Jan Ondráček

Benvolio

Ivo Hrachovec

Duque de Verona

Chorus

State Opera Chorus

Orchestra

State Opera Orchestra

Ballet

National Theatre Narodni Opera Ballet

Prague National Theatre Chorus

Ópera Checa de Praga

National Theatre Opera Ballet Prague

Tenor (+2)

Benjamín Hájek

Paris

Michael Skalický

National Theatre Prague

Státní Opera Praha (The State Opera)

Bajo (+2)

Giorgi Chelidze

Richard Hein

In his youth, the French composer Charles Gounod (1818–1893) said that “one can only make a successful music career by composing operas”. Of the 13 operas he wrote, two went on to gain global recognition: Faust and Roméo et Juliette. Based on feted literary works by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and William Shakespeare, respectively, both of them centre around a love story, with the major role being played by melodies. For more than 150 years, Gounod’s Romeo and Juliet have pined for each other, sung and died on stages all over the world. Why does the opera have such perennial appeal? The answer is simple: splendid solos and four mesmerising duets of the two protagonists, Mercutio’s elegant Ballad of Queen Mab, engrossing ensembles, including the lament on the deaths of Mercutio and Tybalt, a colourful and highly emotional atmosphere.

Owing to Bedřich Smetana, a great champion of Gounod’s music, Roméo et Juliette got to Prague merely two years after its world premiere in Paris, and its Czech staging at the New Town Theatre on 29 August 1869, with Smetana conducting, was the very first in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The Estates Theatre presented Gounod’s opera on 11 September 1873, in German translation, followed by the National Theatre on 6 January 1886, in Czech, and the Neues deutches Theater (today’s State Opera), again in German, on 20 October 1889. Our current production was created by the Slovak director and performance artist Sláva Daubnerová, with the music explored by the renowned Italian conductor Marco Guidarini.

Roméo et Juliette (Romeo y Julieta), Gounod

Elenco

Juliette

Roméo

Frère Laurent

Mercutio

Stéphano

Tybalt

Gertrude

Comte Capulet

Grégorio

Benvolio

Le Duc

Pâris

Equipo

Dirección de escena

Dirección orquestal

Escenografía

Diseño de vestuario

Dirección coral

Iluminación

Coreografía

Dramaturgo

Video

Instrumentación

Productor

Productor

Ensamble

Orquesta

Coro

Compañía de ballet/danza

Coproductor

Videos destacados

Fotografías

Sobre

Compositor

Libreto

Descripción

Sinopsis de Producción