Review: ROMÉO ET JULIETTE at Her Majesty’s Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre
by Barry Lenny - October 24, 2025
Charles Gounod took Shakespeare’s tale of the star-crossed lovers and adapted it to create the 1867 opera, Roméo et Juliette, with an overture and Shakespeare’s explanatory prologue, delivered by the chorus, followed by a five-act opera, with a libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré. ...