Roméo et Juliette

Roméo et Juliette Charles Gounod Opéra Bastille Duration: 3h15 with 1 interval Language: French Surtitles: French / English It takes just one look for Romeo and Juliet to fall in love.

Roméo et Juliette

Charles Gounod

Opéra Bastille

Duration: 3h15 with 1 interval

Language: French

Surtitles: French / English

It takes just one look for Romeo and Juliet to fall in love. But their passion clashes with the ancestral hatred between their families in a Verona on the verge of implosion. While Charles Gounod was drawn to Shakespeare's play from his youth, it was only some twenty years later, following the success of Faust, that he set about putting it to music. Premiered during the 1867 Universal Exhibition, the opera immediately achieved popular success. Four love duets, an ardent waltz, luminous music: the entire score shivers with desire. Who better than Thomas Jolly, one of the most inventive directors of his generation, could celebrate this hymn to youth? This connoisseur of Shakespeare captures adolescent emotions while reintroducing a crucial element of the play into the opera: the plague epidemic, which injects the characters with an urgency to live and to love.

Fabien Gabel Musical direction

Thomas Jolly Staging

Amina Edris Juliette (7 > 19 June)

Nadine Sierra Juliette (22 June > 10 July)

Pene Pati Roméo (7 > 28 June)

Juan Diego Flórez Roméo (1 > 10 July)

Seray Pinar Stephano (7 > 28 June)

Maria Warenberg Stephano (1 > 10 July)

Sylvie Brunet-Grupposo Gertrude

Julien Henric Tybalt

Matthew Goodheart Benvolio

Leon Košavić Mercutio

Trevor Haumschilt-Rocha Pâris

Amin Ahangaran Gregorio

Jérôme Boutillier Capulet

Jean Teitgen Frère Laurent

Vartan Gabrielian Le Duc de Vérone