Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera |
Composer: Charles Gounod
Librettists: Jules Barbier and Michel Carré
Production: Guy Joosten
Conductor: Plácido Domingo
Performers: Anna Netrebko (Juliette), Roberto Alagna (Roméo), Marc Heller (Tybalt), Louis Otey (Paris), Charles Taylor (Capulet), Jane Bunnell (Gertrude), David Won (Grégorio), Tony Stevenson (Benvolio), Dean Peterson (Duke of Verona)
Synopsis:
Soprano Anna Netrebko teams up with tenor Roberto Alagna in Charles Gounod’s sensual interpretation of Shakespeare’s timeless love story. Originally premiered in 1867, Gounod’s opera was a triumph in its time, and is still praised today for its remarkable musical take on Shakespeare. Plácido Domingo presides on the conductor’s podium for this tour-de-force presentation.
Opera synopsis courtesy of the Metropolitan Opera
Funding for GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET: “Roméo et Juliette” has been provided by Toll Brothers, the Irene Diamond Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Mr. and Mrs. Sid R. Bass, and PBS.
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The Guide on our TV system just said Great Performances and I wanted to know who I had just watched – bedroom/wedding night sequence from Romeo and Juliet. Absolutely outstanding. Now I want to see it in person, in addition to those we already have tickets for in this difficult economy.
Netrebko and Alagna were up to their normal outstanding selves. WOW WOW and WOW!!!!
Is Romeo and Juillet with Netrebko available on DVD?
IS ROMEO AND JULIET IN DVD, ALANGA, ANA, DOMINGO
Where can I buy a copy of the 2008 Romeo and Julliette with Anna Netrebco and Alagna ?
WANT TO PURCHASE THIS MET DVD WITH PLACIDO DOMINGO AND ANNA NEETREBKO
PLEASE ADVISE
WANT TO PURCHASE THIS DVD AS I HEARD IT AND WANT THIS VERSION ONLY!!!!
I CAN SEE LOTS OF PEOPLE ASKING FOR THE DVD VERSION OF ROMEO AND JULIET, AND YOU DONT REPLY TO ANY BODY. CAN YOU, HAVE THE COURTESY OF ANSWER THOSE QUESTIONS ? THANK YOU
HOW CAN I ORDER THIS VERSION???
Please tell me where and when I can buy a DVD of this version. I saw the live webcast of it several years ago and now feel I just can’t live without seeing it again.
Thank you.
PLEASE share this glorious version of “Romeo and Juliet”, on DVD with us. The cast, setting, etc. are the most beautiful! PLEASE advise!
It isn’t commercially available, but is repeated-in many major markets- on Great Performances, at least once per year.” Commerically” available is the key term here, since, if you know where to look on opera-fanatic sites, it’s there…. However, that is against copyright laws.
One wishes that this performance as well as the popular,”Figaro” with Terfel/Fleming/Bartoli would find legitimate outlets, since there are so many requests for them….
I cannot understand how the met opera released Armida and La Sonnambula almost immediately after the performances were over and yet they refuse to release Romeo and Juliette almost 2 yearsafter and with all the requests for it. The other opera I ant and they haven’t released is Don Pasquale, done this past year. It seems to me they are releasing operas that don’t get good reviews and hold back on the others. I will say however, if you want a beautiful rendition of Romeo and Juliette, the one with Roberto Alagna and Leontina Verduva is almost as good as this one.
I saw Romeo et Juliette when it was broadcast live in HD to the theaters, and have been waiting for the DVD to be released. Like others, this is the ONLY version that I want — with Roberto Alagna ands Anna Netrebko. Why doesn’t the Met release it in DVD when so many people want it? It’s very aggravating. What can we do to get them to do this?
Please, have you scheduled a re-run of the Netrebko/Alagne/Domingo production of Romeo and Juliette?
It’s magnificent.