Organization

Direttore d'orchestra

Direttore d'orchestra (+1)

Andriy Yurkevych

Regia

Regia (+1)

Sláva Daubnerová

Scenografia

Juraj Kuchárek

Costumi

Martin Kotúček

Coreografia

Stanislava Vlčeková

Luci

Luci (+2)

Daniel Tesař

Video

Lukáš Kodoň

Direzione del coro

Adolf Melichar

Drammaturgo

Jitka Slavíková

Soprano (+1)

Jana Sibera

Giulietta

Tenore (+3)

Petr Nekoranec

Romeo

Basso (+3)

Roman Vocel

Frate Lorenzo

Baritono (+3)

Lukáš Bařák

Mercutio

Mezzosoprano (+3)

Arnheiður Eiríksdóttir

Stefano

Tenore (+4)

Daniel Matoušek

Tebaldo

Mezzosoprano (+2)

Sylva Čmugrová

Gertrude

Basso-baritono (+3)

Miloš Horák

Il conte Capuleti

Martin Matoušek

Gregorio

Tenore (+5)

Jan Ondráček

Benvolio

Ivo Hrachovec

Il duca di 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

Tenore (+2)

Benjamín Hájek

Paride

Michael Skalický

National Theatre Prague

Státní Opera Praha (The State Opera)

Basso (+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 e Giulietta), Gounod

Cast

Juliette

Roméo

Frère Laurent

Mercutio

Stéphano

Tybalt

Gertrude

Comte Capulet

Grégorio

Benvolio

Le Duc

Pâris

Team creativo

Regia

Direttore d'orchestra

Scenografia

Costumi

Direzione del coro

Luci

Coreografia

Drammaturgo

Video

Strumentazione

Produttore

Produttore

Ensemble

Orchestra

Coro

Balletto o gruppo di danza

Co-produttore

Video correlati

Foto

Informazioni

Compositore

Libretto

Descrizione

Sinossi della produzione