Gounod’s “Roméo et Juliette” from the Met Opera in selected Polish theatres on March 23
The Met: Live in HD – the award-winning series of live transmissions from the New York Met Opera – is coming back to selected movie theatres on March 23. The audience will have an opportunity to see Gounod’s “Roméo et Juliette”, with Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin on the podium to conduct the famous score. Soprano Nadine Sierra and tenor Benjamin Bernheim will come together as the lovers Romeo and Juliet. The staging also features baritone Will Liverman and tenor Frederick Ballentine as the rivals Mercutio and Tybalt, mezzo-soprano Samantha Hankey as the mischievous pageboy Stéphano, and bass-baritone Alfred Walker as Frère Laurent.
“Roméo et Juliette” is an opera in five acts by the French composer Charles Gounod (1818-1893), with libretto based around William Shakespeare’s tragedy. The musical story focused on the dramatic relationship of two young lovers from Verona was first performed in Paris in 1867.
The Live from New York will be transmitted in selected Polish theatres, including: the Podlaska Opera in Białystok, STUDIO teatrgaleria in Warsaw, the Philharmonic in Łódź, the Palace Cinema in Poznań, the Studio Cinema Amok in Gliwice and the OFK Iluzja cinema in Częstochowa.
The Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD 2023-24 is the seventeenth season of the award-winning series of live movie theatre transmissions from the New York Met Opera. Other productions lined up for the current season include Puccini’s “The Swallow” (April 20) and “Madama Butterfly” (May 11).