Performance

Venue	Grand Theatre and Opera House
	Also: Howard Assembly Room
Town	Leeds
County	West Yorkshire
From	17th May 2008
To	23rd May 2008
When	May 17, 20, 23
Grand Theatre and Opera House (V975)
Current/Future Listings
Listings Archive

Romeo et Juliette

Work:: Romeo et Juliette (S0427270786)

Romeo and Juliet, the star crossed lovers who meet untimely death.

Music

Gounod

Production:: (T635302712)

New Production. Sung in French with English titles. Running time approx. 3 hours 15 minutes. Two powerful families - the Montagues and the Capulets - are divided by age-old enmity. When Romeo and his Montague friends gatecrash a Capulet party, he meets Juliette and they fall deeply, dangerously in love. Amidst escalating violence they are secretly wed by the sympathetic Frere Laurent, who hopes that their union may begin to reconcile the feuding families. It does - but only after Romeo and Juliette have paid the ultimate price.

Company	Opera North
Conductor	Peter Selwyn
Conductor	Martin Andre
Director	John Fulljames
Design	Johan Engels
Costume	Adam Wiltshire
Lighting	Bruno Poet
Performer	Leonardo Capalbo IRomeo)
Performer	Bernarda Bobro (Juliette)
Performer	Grant Doyle (Mercutio)
Performer	Peter Wedd (Tybalt)
Performer	Frances Bourne (Stephano)
Performer	Geoffrey Dolton (Paris)
Performer	Peter Savidge (Capulet)
Performer	Nicholas Sharratt (Benvolio)
Performer	Gaynor Keeble (Gertrude)
Performer	Henry Waddington (Prere Laurent)

Listing:: L2134849696

Production details

New Production. Sung in French with English titles. Running time approx. 3 hours 15 minutes. Two powerful families - the Montagues and the Capulets - are divided by age-old enmity. When Romeo and his Montague friends gatecrash a Capulet party, he meets Juliette and they fall deeply, dangerously in love. Amidst escalating violence they are secretly wed by the sympathetic Frere Laurent, who hopes that their union may begin to reconcile the feuding families. It does - but only after Romeo and Juliette have paid the ultimate price.

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