Romeo and Juliet - Opera - Season 22/23 Programming - Opéra national de Paris

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    Romeo and Juliet

    Charles Gounod

    Opéra Bastille - from 14 June to 15 July 2023

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Romeo and Juliet

Opéra Bastille - from 14 June to 15 July 2023

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Romeo and Juliet

Opera Charles Gounod

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Opéra Bastille - from 14 June to 15 July 2023

3h35 with 1 interval

Language : French

Surtitle : French / English

  • Pre‑opening for the young : 14 June 2023 at 19:30

    Opening night : 17 June 2023 at 19:30

About

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How many composers have been inspired by the two lovers from Verona depicted by Shakespeare? From Vincenzo Bellini and Hector Berlioz to Leonard Bernstein, the list is long. If Charles Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, first performed during the Universal Exhibition of 1867, enjoyed immediate popularity it is doubtless because this is the version that translates the tumultuous lives of the celebrated lovers with the greatest finesse. Four love duets, a fiery waltz and luminous, lyrical music: the entire score seems to tremble with desire and freshness. Who better than Thomas Jolly, one of the most inventive directors of his generation, reputed for his audacious re‑readings of Shakespeare, to celebrate this hymn to youth? Following his Eliogabalo by Cavalli in 2016, he signs his second collaboration with the Paris Opera.

  • Opening
  • First part 100 mn
  • Intermission 30 mn
  • Second part 85 mn
  • End

  • Romeo and Juliet

    Opera in five acts (1887)

    By William Shakespeare


    • Music :

      Charles Gounod - (1818 - 1893)

    • Libretto :

      Jules Barbier

      Michel Carré

    Orchestre et Chœurs de l’Opéra national de Paris

    Roméo et Juliette fait l’objet d’une captation coproduite par l’Opéra national de Paris, avec la participation de France Télévisions, le soutien du CNC et de la Fondation Orange, mécène des retransmissions audiovisuelles de l’Opéra national de Paris.

    Ce spectacle sera retransmis en direct le 26 juin 2023 à 19h30 sur France.tv/Culturebox et également, avec le concours de FRA cinéma, dans les cinémas UGC, dans le cadre de leur saison « Viva l’Opéra ! », dans les cinémas CGR et des cinémas indépendants en France et en Europe, et ultérieurement dans le monde entier. Diffusion ultérieure sur une chaîne de France Télévisions

    Diffusion ultérieure sur France Musique à 20h dans le cadre de l’émission « Samedi à l’Opéra », présentée par Judith Chaine.

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