Performance

Venue	The Lowry
	Also: Lyric Theatre, Quays Theatre, Aldridge Studio
Town	Salford
County	Greater Manchester
From	10th June 2008
To	13th June 2008
When	Jun 10, 13
The Lowry (V0655996499)
Current/Future Listings
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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:: L01476038595

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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