Cast:
Nino
Machaidze
(Juliette)
Rolando
Villazòn (Romèo)
Mikhail
Petrenko (Frère
Laurent)
Russell
Braun (Mercutio)
Cora
Burggraaf (Stèphano)
Falk
Struckmann
(Le Comte & Capulet)
Juna Francisco
Gatell (Tybalt)
Conductor:
Yannick
Nézet-Séguin
Director:
Bartlett Sher
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Performed at
Salzburg Festival 2008
With
its four duets for the title couple
Charles Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette
is one of the most famous love
tragedies in opera literature. Stage
director Bartlett Sher (winner of
this year’s best director of a
musical Tony Award for his revival
of South Pacific on Broadway) makes
his European opera debut with this
production of Roméo et Juliette at
the exceeding ambience of the Felsenreitschule. Rolando Villazón,
one of the leading lyric tenors of
our day and has been acclaimed for
performances at leading theatres
across the world, acts as Romeo.
It’s his first TV opera performance
after his disease. As Julia acts the
young Georgian soprano Nino
Machaizde, who made her La Scala
debut in 2006 as Najade in Ariadne
auf Naxos under the baton of Jeffrey
Tate. The young French-Canadian
conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin,
music director designate of the
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra,
conducts for the first time in
Salzburg. |
