The soprano Nadine Sierra once again redeemed the deficiencies and compensated for the excesses of an unequal performance at the Teatro Real. As two seasons ago in Bilbao, his Juliette in Charles Gounod’s opera shone with its own light above a notable cast with some blemishes, a solvent but uninspired musical direction and, above all, a stage production that, based on the Shakespearean oxymoron, succumbs too many times to its own game of opposites.
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‘Romeo and Juliet’
Music by Charles Gounod Libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, based on the tragedy Romeo and Juliet (1597) the William Shakespeare
Nadine Sierra, soprano (Juliette); Javier Camarena, tenor (Romeo); Roberto Tagliavini, low (Fray Laurent); Benjamin Appl, baritone (Mercutio); Héloïse Mas, mezzo-soprano (Stephano); Laurent Naouri, bass-baritone (Capulet); Maciej Kwasnikowski, tenor (Tybalt); Sonia Ganassi, mezzo-soprano (Gertrude); David Lagares, low (Duke of Verona); Take Bibiloni, bass-baritone (Paris); Josep-Ramón Olivé, baritone (Grégorio); Pablo Martínez, tenor (Benvolio); Javier Castañeda, tenor (Fray Jean), among others.
Choir and Orchestra of the Teatro Real.
choir director: José Luis Basso.
musical direction: Carlo Rizzi
stage direction: Thomas Jolly.
Teatro Real, May 27. Until June 13.