| Opéra national de Paris | ||
| Carlo Rizzi | Conductor | |
| Thomas Jolly | Director | |
| Bruno de Lavenère | Set Designer | |
| Sylvette Dequest | Costume Designer | |
| Antoine Travert | Lighting Designer | |
| Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris | ||
| Chœurs de l'Opéra national de Paris | ||
| Magdaléna Calloc'h | Costume Designer | Assistant |
| Josépha Madoki | Choreography | |
| Ema Yuasa | Choreography | Assistant |
| Ran Arthur Braun | Fight Director | |
| Elsa Dreisig | Soprano | Juliette |
| Benjamin Bernheim | Tenor | Roméo |
| Lea Desandre | Mezzo-soprano | Stéphano |
| Jean Teitgen | Bass | Frère Laurent |
| Laurent Naouri | Baritone | Count Capulet |
| Maciej Kwaśnikowski | Tenor | Tybalt |
| Sylvie Brunet-Grupposo | Mezzo-soprano | Gertrude, Juliette's nurse |
| Jérôme Boutillier | Baritone | Duke of Verona |
| Sergio Villegas Galvain | Baritone | Pâris |
| Thomas Ricart | Tenor | Benvolio, nephew of Montaigu |
| Yiorgos Ioannou | Baritone | Grégorio |
| Huw Montague Rendall | Baritone | Mercutio |
| Song Hee Lee | Soprano | Manuela |
How many composers have been inspired by the two lovers from Verona depicted by Shakespeare? From Vincenzo Bellini and Hector Berlioz to Leonard Bernstein, the list is long. If Charles Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, first performed during the Universal Exhibition of 1867, enjoyed immediate popularity it is doubtless because this is the version that translates the tumultuous lives of the celebrated lovers with the greatest finesse.
Four love duets, a fiery waltz and luminous, lyrical music: the entire score seems to tremble with desire and freshness. Who better than Thomas Jolly, one of the most inventive directors of his generation, reputed for his audacious re‑readings of Shakespeare, to celebrate this hymn to youth? Following his Eliogabalo by Cavalli in 2016, he signs his second collaboration with the Paris Opera.
Reviews of Roméo et Juliette directed by Thomas Jolly
