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Opernhaus Zürich

Soprano (+3)

Julie Fuchs

Julieta

Tenor

Stephen Costello

Romeo

Bajo (+5)

Nicolas Testé

Fray Lorenzo

Barítono (+1)

Gregory Feldmann

Mercucio

Mezzosoprano (+2)

Svetlina Stoyanova

Stéfano

Tenor (+3)

Omer Kobiljak

Tibaldo

Mezzosoprano (+5)

Irène Friedli

Gertrude

Maximilian Lawrie

Benvolio

Orchestra

The Orchester der Oper Zürich

Dirección orquestal

Dirección orquestal (+1)

Timur Zangiev

Dirección de escena

Dirección de escena (+4)

Ted Huffman

Escenografía

Escenografía (+1)

Andrew Lieberman

Diseño de vestuario

Annemarie Woods

Iluminación

Iluminación (+3)

Franck Evin

Dirección coral

Dirección coral (+3)

Ernst Raffelsberger

Coreografía

Coreografía (+1)

Pim Veulings

Dramaturgo

Fabio Dietsche

Bajo (+4)

Chao Deng

Conde Capuleto

Bajo (+3)

Valeriy Murga

Duque de Verona

Bajobarítono (+4)

Samson Setu

Grigorio

Opernhaus

Barítono (+2)

Steffan Lloyd Owen

Paris

Chorus

Chor der Oper Zürich

Bailarín

Alison Duarte

Dancers

Maarten Krielen

Davide Pillera

Roberto Tallarigo

Sina Friedli

Bailarín (+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 The waltz – which was modern in Gounod’s on time – becomes, in Huffman’s interpretation, a symbol for a society with outdated values from which Roméo and Juliette must free themselves.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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