 
'Best company of the year? Yet again, I'd plump for Opera North. I salute its courage and fresh thinking' - Daily Telegraph
'Opera North consistently comes up with ideas that expand audience taste and challenge its own imagination' - Financial Times
'As Juliette, the Slovenian coloratura soprano Bernarda Bobro is startling in appearance and voice. Her ‘Waltz song’ has a girlish vivacity, colouring her dramatic personality through to the chilling solo where she imagines being incarcerated with the dead Tybalt, and her final desperate utterances.' - The Independent
'The physical and vocal youth of the two principals is both alluring and moving.' - The Times
'*****' - The Guardian / Metro
Performances:
Tue 17 Jun: 7:30pm
Fri 20 Jun: 7:30pm
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| Tue & Fri eves | £48.00 | £48.00 | £37.00 | £29.00 | £17.00 |
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Magnificent Opera
Opera North - Roméo et Juliette
By Gounod sung in French with English titles
Committed to producing high quality, exciting and entertaining shows, one of the UK’s leading opera companies, Opera North makes its inaugural visit to the New Victoria Theatre, presenting three thrilling and captivating new productions based on the much-loved plays of William Shakespeare.
The Montagues and the Capulets are divided by age-old enmity. When Roméo gatecrashes a Capulet party he meets Juliette and they fall deeply, dangerously in love. Amidst escalating violence they are secretly married by the sympathetic Friar Laurent, who hopes that their union may begin to reconcile the feuding families. It does – but only after Roméo and Juliette have paid the ultimate price.
Dramatic, ardent, unfailingly melodic, Gounod takes the world’s best-known love story and makes of it a lavish melodrama. The clashes between the Montagues and Capulets generate tremendous excitement, and for the lovers there is a succession of magnificent duets, jewels set amongst a lushly orchestrated score.
John Fulljames directs two rising young stars in the title roles. Slovenian soprano Bernarda Bobro makes her British debut as Juliette and Leonardo Capalbo, who made a considerable impact with the Company as Paco in La vida breve (2004) and Juan in Arms and the Cow (2006), is her Roméo.
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Wed 18 June & Sat 21 June
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Running Time
3h
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