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Soprano (+3)

Julie Fuchs

Juliet

Ténor

Stephen Costello

Romeo

Basse (+5)

Nicolas Testé

Friar Laurent

Baryton (+1)

Gregory Feldmann

Mercutio

Mezzo-soprano (+2)

Svetlina Stoyanova

Stephano

Ténor (+3)

Omer Kobiljak

Tybalt

Mezzo-soprano (+5)

Irène Friedli

Gertrude

Maximilian Lawrie

Benvolio

Orchestra

The Orchester der Oper Zürich

Direction d'orchestre

Direction d'orchestre (+1)

Timur Zangiev

Mise en scène

Mise en scène (+4)

Ted Huffman

Décors

Décors (+1)

Andrew Lieberman

Costumes

Annemarie Woods

Lumières

Lumières (+3)

Franck Evin

Chef de chœur

Chef de chœur (+3)

Ernst Raffelsberger

Chorégraphie

Chorégraphie (+1)

Pim Veulings

Dramaturge

Fabio Dietsche

Basse (+4)

Chao Deng

Count Capulet

Basse (+3)

Valeriy Murga

The Duke

Baryton-basse (+4)

Samson Setu

Gregory

Opernhaus

Baryton (+2)

Steffan Lloyd Owen

Paris

Chorus

Chor der Oper Zürich

Danseur

Alison Duarte

Dancers

Maarten Krielen

Davide Pillera

Roberto Tallarigo

Sina Friedli

Danseur (+1)

Sara Peña

Elena Paltracca

Oriana Zeoli

Extras

Statistenverein am Opernhaus Zürich

Romeo und Juliette are social outsiders in a world full of strict conventions. In Charles Gounod’s French setting of this famous love story, the young pair meets at a lavish ball. Juliette, who is sheltered by her father, opens with lively waltz «Je veux vivre», while Roméo and his friends have snuck into their rivals’ party. It’s love at first sight, and the beginning of their fateful affair. The intense passion that develops between the two is at the center of Gounod’s Romantic opera: Four grand duets mark the path from love’s first bloom to the tragic deaths that the two experience as redemption.
American stage director Ted Huffman sets Gounod’s opera, which first appeared on stage at the 1867 Paris Exhibition world’s fair, on a simple dance floor. The waltz – which was modern in Gounod’s on time – becomes, in Huffman’s interpretation, a symbol for a society with outdated values from which Roméo and Juliette must free themselves. As in his «exceptionally harmonious» Madama Butterfly, here Huffman proves to be a «fine draftsman of gestures, moods and glances» pulling focus «even more towards the emotional tensions between the lovers», according to the Neue Zürcher Zeitung.
As in the premiere run, Julie Fuchs is Juliette. Tenor Stephen Costello, who last appeared here as Roberto Devereux, bows as Roméo.

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