The Met in HD, Romeo et Juliette, 2007

By Jeffery S. McMillan, 01 December 2013

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Reviewed at Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House, New York City on 15 December 2007

Gounod, Roméo et Juliette

Metropolitan Opera

Plácido Domingo, Conductor

Anna Netrebko, Juliette

Roberto Alagna, Roméo

Jane Bunnell, Gertrude, Juliette's nurse

Isabel Leonard, Stéphano

Tony Stevenson, Benvolio, nephew of Montaigu

Nathan Gunn, Mercutio

Charles Taylor, Count Capulet

Louis Otey, Pâris

David Won, Grégorio

Marc Heller, Tybalt

Dean Peterson, Duke of Verona

Robert Lloyd, Frère Laurent

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Jeffery S. McMillan

Jeffery holds an MA in Jazz History and Research from Rutgers University and spent ten years as an archivist for the Metropolitan Opera, where he helped develop the MetOpera Database. He currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and writes about opera and jazz for publications including Opera News and Musical America.