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Opernhaus Zürich

Soprano (+3)

Julie Fuchs

Juliette

Tenor

Stephen Costello

Roméo

Baixo (+5)

Nicolas Testé

Frère Laurent

Barítono (+1)

Gregory Feldmann

Mercutio

Mezzo-soprano (+2)

Svetlina Stoyanova

Stéphano

Tenor (+3)

Omer Kobiljak

Tybalt

Mezzo-soprano (+5)

Irène Friedli

Gertrude

Maximilian Lawrie

Benvolio

Orchestra

The Orchester der Oper Zürich

Maestro

Maestro (+1)

Timur Zangiev

Diretor de Palco

Diretor de Palco (+4)

Ted Huffman

Cenógrafo

Cenógrafo (+1)

Andrew Lieberman

Estilista

Annemarie Woods

Designer de Iluminação

Designer de Iluminação (+3)

Franck Evin

Mestre de Coro

Mestre de Coro (+3)

Ernst Raffelsberger

Coreógrafo

Coreógrafo (+1)

Pim Veulings

Dramaturgo

Fabio Dietsche

Baixo (+4)

Chao Deng

Comte Capulet

Baixo (+3)

Valeriy Murga

Le Duc

Baixo-barítono (+4)

Samson Setu

Grégorio

Opernhaus

Barítono (+2)

Steffan Lloyd Owen

Pâris

Chorus

Chor der Oper Zürich

Dançarino

Alison Duarte

Dancers

Maarten Krielen

Davide Pillera

Roberto Tallarigo

Sina Friedli

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 The waltz – which was modern in Gounod’s on time – becomes, in Huffman’s interpretation, a symbol for a society with outdated values from which Roméo and Juliette must free themselves.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