Roméo et Juliette at The Karlín Music Theatre

Dates: (2/7/2017 - 6/25/2017 )

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The Karlín Music Theatre

K?ižíkova 10
Praha 8,Praha 8 186 00

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Phone: +420 224 901 448

Tickets: CZK 350.00 - CZK 1290.00

Running Time: Approximate running time, including intermissions: 3 hours, 10 minutes, one 20-minute intermission.

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In his youth, the French composer Charles Gounod (1818–1893) said that “one can only make a successful musical career by composing operas”. Of the 13 operas he wrote, two went on to gain global recognition: Faust and Roméo et Juliette. Since its premiere at the Théâtre Lyrique in Paris on 27 April 1867, Gounod’s setting of the immortal story of the Verona lovers has enjoyed ever-increasing popularity. For the very first time in the history of opera, four duets of the main protagonists instead of the conventional two love duets occur: their first encounter at the Capulets’ ball, the balcony scene, Roméo and Juliette’s wedding night, and the death scene. The literature on Gounod’s love songs often contains a statement along the lines that the score of Roméo et Juliette is nothing but a “now and then interrupted love duet.” Owing to Bed?ich Smetana, a great champion of Gounod’s music, Roméo et Juliette got to Prague merely two years after its world premiere, and its Czech staging at the New Town Theatre, with Smetana conducting, was the very first in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The National Theatre first presented the opera on 6 January 1886. Our most recent production (1994–2000) was created by the Slovak director Jozef Bednárik. The new production at the State Opera was prepared by the eminent Italian conductor Marco Guidarini and the Slovak director Sláva Daubnerová, who recently dazzled the Prague audience with her treatment of Shostakovich’s Orango and Antiformalist Rayok.

Cast and Creative team for Roméo et Juliette at The Karlín Music Theatre

Libretto: Jules Barbier, Michel Carré
Musical preparation: Marco Guidarini
Conductor: Marco Guidarini, Richard Hein
Stage director: Sláva Daubnerová
Sets: Juraj Kuchárek
Costumes: Martin Kotú?ek
Motion cooperation: Stanislava Vl?eková
Light-design: Daniel Tesa?
Video: Lukáš Kodo?
Chorus master: Adolf Melichar
Dramaturgy: Jitka Slavíková

Juliette

Kate?ina Kn?žíková
Jana Šrejma Ka?írková

Romeo

Aleš Briscein
Martin Šrejma

Lorenzo

Oleg Korotkov
Roman Vocel

Mercutio

Ji?í Brückler
Igor Loškár

Stéphano

Jana Horáková Levicová
Št?pánka Pu?álková

Tybalt

Martin Gyimesi
Václav Sibera

Gertrude

Sylva ?mugrová
Jana Sýkorová

Capulet

Martin Bárta
Miguelangelo Cavalcanti

Ruler of Verona

Ivo Hrachovec
Lukáš Hynek-Krämer

Paris

Libor Novák
Michael Skalický

Gregorio

Mat?j Chadima
Martin Matoušek

Benvolio

Michal Bragagnolo
Jan Ondrá?ek

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