Rasantes Gelage: Roméo et Juliette am MusikTheater an der Wien

Julien Behr (Roméo) und Mélissa Petit (Juliette)

Auf der Leinwand: Mélissa Petit (Juliette) und Brian Michael Moore (Tybalt)

Mélissa Petit (Juliette) und Julien Behr (Roméo)

Mélissa Petit (Juliette), Leon Košavić (Mercutio) und Svetlina Stoyanova (Stéphano)

Roméo et Juliette

Julien Behr (Roméo) und Mélissa Petit (Juliette)

By Norman Schwarze, 27 February 2024

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“eine opulente Inszenierung, die weder provozieren möchte, noch eine neue Interpretation liefern kann”

Reviewed at MuseumsQuartier Wien: Halle E, Vienna on 25 February 2024

Gounod, Roméo et Juliette

MusikTheater an der Wien

Kirill Karabits, Conductor

Marie-Ève Signeyrole, Director

Fabien Teigné, Set Designer

Yashi, Costume Designer

Sascha Zauner, Lighting Designer

ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra

Arnold Schoenberg Choir

Louis Geisler, Dramaturgy

Mélissa Petit, Juliette

Julien Behr, Roméo

Carole Wilson, Gertrude, Juliette's nurse

Svetlina Stoyanova, Stéphano

Adrian Autard, Benvolio, nephew of Montaigu

Brett Polegato, Count Capulet

Timothy Connor, Grégorio

Leon Košavić, Mercutio

Brian Michael Moore, Tybalt

Alexander Teliga, Duke of Verona

Daniel Mirosław, Frère Laurent

Erwin Ortner, Choirmaster / chorus director

Stefan Herheim’s bold Fledermaus at MusikTheater an der Wien

Chanda VanderHart, 13th October

Herheim’s Fledermaus is a risky experiment that, miraculously, works – at least in a city that knows it so intimately.

****1

Miroslav Srnka’s Voice Killer premieres at MusikTheater an der Wien

Chanda VanderHart, 16th June

At MusikTheater an der Wien, Miroslav Srnka’s new opera provess a deeply compelling, meticulously crafted work. It may not uplift, but it sears itself into the memory.

****1

Fish, frocks and farce: a Prokofiev romp in Vienna

Chanda VanderHart, 28th March

Damiano Michieletto directs a slick and frequently hilarious staging of Prokofiev's comic opera Betrothal in a Monastery.

***11

Grigorian and Akhmetshina dazzle in a secular Norma

Chanda VanderHart, 19th February

In a week where Vienna welcomes two new productions of Bellini's Norma, MusikTheater an der Wien sets a high bar with Vasily Barkhatov's staging.

****1

Freitag, der Dreizehnte celebrates Schoenberg at the Reaktor

Chanda VanderHart, 28th April

What do you get for the composer who made – and also kind of broke – everything? Arnold Schoenberg’s well-documented phobia of the number 13 aside, he could not have asked for a superior tribute in his 150th anniversary year.

****1

Not quite a premiere, not quite a success: Salieri’s Kublai Khan

Chanda VanderHart, 7th April

Martin G Berger exhaustively reworks the story and the libretto of Salieri's Cublai, gran kan de' Tartari and throws the kitchen sink at this new production, but not everything lands well.

***11

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Norman Schwarze

Norman ist Münchner, absoluter Reisefanatiker, Blogger und Opernliebhaber seit frühester Kindheit. Besonders begeistert er sich für progressive Inszenierungen und Stücke des 21. Jahrhunderts. Nach seinem Studium der Allgemeinen Sprachwissenschaften orientierte er sich neu und arbeitet nun als Produktmanager im Börsenumfeld. Das ist sein Blog: www.annees-de-pelerinage.com