Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Bartlett Sher's production of Gounod's Roméo et Juliette returns to the Met stage ...

Gounod’s version of Shakespeare’s masterpiece assumes that the audience is familiar with the source material. There are four duets and a pair of arias for the principal couple. The two arias, "Je veux ...

It was one of those dream happenstances: a night at the opera wondrously sung by all, conducted and directed with exactly the right spirit, staged with high imagination. Yet all this splendor, alas, ...

Whitefish Theatre Co., in collaboration with the Whitefish Arts Council and the Whitefish Performing Arts Center, presents Charles Gounod’s sumptuous Shakespeare adaptation “Romeo et Juliette” as part ...

If the past two years seemed like an artistic desert for local opera fans, San Diego Opera’s “Roméo et Juliette” feels like an oasis. The lushly cast production, which opened Saturday at the San Diego ...

William Shakespeare’s play “Romeo and Juliet” has a timeless familiarity, with lines such as “Parting is such sweet sorrow” or “Thus, with a kiss, I die.” But when the Bard’s tragic tale of romance is ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Gounod's masterpiece of grand French opera, Roméo et Juliette, continues San Diego ...

Given the long history and once preeminent position that French opera once held in New Orleans, it is unfortunate that there seems to be little tolerance among contemporary audiences for anything save ...

There’s a wide-eyed poignancy when you know you’re seeing something for the last time — a heightened sense of trying to savor each moment before it forever slips away. I’ve been watching Noelani ...