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Tragic opera in three acts. 210 min. (with two intervals). Music Director: Fabio Mastrangelo. Conductors: Fabio Mastrangelo, Andrey Lebedev, Yuri Medianik, Vasily Valitov. Director, Set, Costume and Lighting Designer: Arnaud Bernard. Sung in French with Russian surtitles. One of Gounod’s best operas Roméo et Juliette (1867) has become one of the most successful adaptations of the Shakespeare tragedy. The opera focuses on “drama through lyricism” (Mikhail Muginstein): the feud of the families becomes a background for the love story. The drama is based on the monologues and four brilliants duets of the main characters which reveal the story of their relations. It was Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, following his Faust, that established a new genre in the late 19th-century opera, called drame lyrique.
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