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Aleš Briscein

Roméo

Martin Šrejma

Soprano

Jana Šrejma Kačírková

Juliette

Kateřina Kněžíková

Bass

Oleg Korotkov

Frère Laurent

Roman Vocel

Baritone

Jiří Brückler

Mercutio

Igor Loškár

Matěj Chadima

Václav Sibera

Tybalt

Martin Gyimesi

Mezzo-soprano

Jana Horáková Levicová

Stéphano

Stepanka Pucalkova

Libor Novák

Pâris

Peter Paleček

Ivo Hrachovec

Le Duc

Lukáš Hynek Krämer

Jana Sýkorová

Gertrude

Sylva Čmugrová

Michal Bragagnolo

Benvolio

Ondřej Socha

Grégorio

Martin Matoušek

Bass-baritone

Martin Bárta

Comte Capulet

Miguelangelo Cavalcanti

Dirigent

Marco Guidarini

Richard Hein

Regisseur

Sláva Daubnerová

Set designer

Juraj Kuchárek

Kostuum ontwerper

Martin Kotúček

Koor meester

Adolf Melichar

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Roméo et Juliette -  (Romeo en Julia)

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Roméo et Juliette Gounod

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Romeo en Julia

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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.

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