Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette — The Metropolitan Opera (2024)
The play as French Romantic opera, with Nadine Sierra and Benjamin Bernheim.
The lovers’ scenes are already arias; give them to two singers and let the duets be the play.
You want to be overwhelmed by two voices, and you have an afternoon.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: the lovers’ story and the period setting.
Changes: the words, into French, sung to Gounod’s music.
Gounod’s opera, in French. Benjamin Bernheim and Nadine Sierra, with Will Liverman as Mercutio and Samantha Hankey as Stéphano; Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts.
Whose story is it?
the lovers’, sung by Nadine Sierra and Benjamin Bernheim.
How much time does it ask?
The Met’s Live in HD performance of 23 March 2024 ran from 1:00 to 4:30, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. It is on Met Opera on Demand, the Met’s own subscription service.
The Met’s programme for 23 March 2024: Benjamin Bernheim as Roméo, Nadine Sierra as Juliette, Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducting, transmitted live in HD.
Where to find it
Watch on Met Opera on Demand (subscription)
More ways into Verona: Romeo and Juliet (George Cukor, 1936) · Romeo and Juliet (Franco Zeffirelli, 1968) · William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet (1996)