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Roberto Alagna & Angela Gheorghiu: Gounod's Roméo et Juliette

Roberto Alagna & Angela Gheorghiu: Gounod's Roméo et Juliette

Opera

Zvikov Castle

Production Date: 01/01/2001
74 Min
Available in 4K

The warring families; the ecstasy of young love: Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet has long fascinated composers of all eras and nations. But none has ever brought it into the opera house more successfully than Charles Gounod – and no pair of singers, surely, was ever more suited to its title roles than the turn-of-the-millennium dream team of Angela Gheorghiu and Roberto Alagna. Antonio Guadagno’s 2002 movie of Roméo et Juliette is just that: a sumptuously produced cinematic version, filmed on location in the stunning medieval setting of Zvikov Castle in Bohemia. The result ravishes the eyes as well as the heart.

Soloists
Roberto Alagna (Tenor), Angela Gheorghiu (Soprano), Tito Beltrán (Tenor), Aleš Hendrych (Bass-Baritone), František Zahradníček (Bass-Baritone), Vratislav Kříž (Bass), Zdeněk Harvánek (Bass)
Ensembles
Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, Kühn Mixed Choir
Conductor
Anton Guadagno