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Soprano

Vannina Santoni

Juliet

Tenor

Sebastien Gueze

Romeo

Bass

Dong-Jian Gong

Friar Laurent

Baritone

Guillaume Andrieux

Mercutio

Bass-baritone

Guy Bonfiglio

Count Capulet

Haô Ting

Tybalt

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Benjamin Pionnier

Stage director

Arnaud Bernard

Opera Hong Kong

French

Roméo et Juliette -  (Romeo and Juliet)

Hong Kong Cultural Centre

Hong Kong SAR China

Grand Theatre

Romeo and Juliet

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Roméo et Juliette Gounod

Je veux vivre - A Love Insight - Roméo et Juliette - 2016

One of Gounod’s best operas, Romèo et Juliette has become one of the most successful adaptations of the Shakespeare tragedy. Natural and spontaneous, with vibrant and poetic sets, this production by French director and designer Arnaud Bernard is starred by two highly successful young French opera singers Vannina Santoni (Juliette) and Sèbastien Guèze (Romèo), along with overseas and local best talents, Opera Hong Kong Chorus and Fujian Symphony Orchestra under the baton of French maestro Benjamin Pionnier.Premiered in Paris in 1867, Gounod’s Romèo et Juliette is a heart-breaking tragedy on the fate of two young lovers that touches the soul of all who see it. On a libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carrè, after the play by Shakespeare, the opera focuses on drama through lyricism: 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 Romèo et Juliette, following his Faust, that established a new genre in the late 19th-century opera, called drame lyrique.

為紀念莎士比亞逝世400周年，香港歌劇院聯同法國五月藝術節呈獻，法國作曲家古諾的代表作 -《羅密歐與茱麗葉》，由法國著名導演兼燈光設計師貝南(Arnaud Bernard)全新炮製，當時得令的年輕法國女高音桑托尼(Vannina Santoni)和男高音凱茲 (Sébastien Guèze)分別飾演茱麗葉和羅密歐，以及其他國際和本地菁英歌唱家、香港歌劇院合唱團，並由法國指揮大師琵安理亞(Benjamin Pionnier )率領福建交響樂團傾力演出，為這個傳頌千古的愛情故事帶來一個嶄新的演繹，香港樂迷不容錯過。

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Romeo and Juliet by Gounod, From (2016/2016), Directed by Arnaud Bernard,, Conductor Benjamin Pionnier, Grand Theatre, Hong Kong Cultural Centre, Hong Kong SAR China

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