I Capuleti e i Montecchi
From: Monday, 2nd March 2009
To: Saturday, 11 April 2009
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Synopsis
The tragic tale of the star-crossed lover Romeo and Juliet unfolds in Bellini's operatic version which draws on both Shakespeare and his original source material.
Our Review:
3 March 2009
The opera isn’t based on Shakespeare (who was almost unknown to the 19th Century Italians) but reverts to his source material and also to another operatic version that librettist Felice Romani had written some years previously.
At the opening, Romeo has already killed a Capulet and an ailing Juliet (Giulietta), on the brink of marriage to Tybalt (Tebaldo), has long since fallen for the charms of her father’s deadly enemy.
The only reason for reviving Pier Luigi Pizzi’s 25 year old production is to showcase a duo of exceptional singers and that’s what we get here in the delectable shapes of Latvian mezzo Elina Garanca and Russian soprano Anna Netrebko, fresh from recording the work for Deutsche Grammophon.
Garanca strikes a handsome figure as Romeo, with singing to match, and if her striding and strutting looks a tad old-school, it’s in keeping with the piece. A modernised, conceptual approach would undoubtedly have got...
Cast
Anna Netrebko (Giulietta)
Elina Garanca (Romeo)
Giovanni Battista Parodi (Lorenzo)
Dario Schmunck (Tabaldo)
Eric Owens (Capellio)
Creative
Vencenzo Bellini (Music)
Felice Romani (after Matteo Bandello and Luigi Sceola and William Shakespeare) (Lyrics)
Royal Opera (Producer)
Pier Luigi Pizzi (Director)
Mark Elder (Conductor)
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