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We inform the audience that the announced performance of the opera "Roméo et Juliette", scheduled for April 30th, 2022, at 5pm in the Zubin Mehta room, is postponed on May 10th, 2022, at 8pm. 

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The project to create a work on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet accompanied Charles Gounod from a young age and for over twenty years. After winning the “Prix de Rome” in 1839, Gounod began composing an opera on the libretto of Felice Romani I Capuleti e i Montecchi (the same one set to music by Bellini) but without completing it. In 1865, at the height of his stylistic maturity, the composer returned to the Shakespearean drama by entrusting the writing of the libretto to Jules Barbier and Michel Carrè, trusted collaborators who were already authors of Faust. So two years later, on April 27, 1867, Roméo et Juliette debuted at the Théâtre Lyrique in Paris, achieving immediate success. Divided into five acts, Roméo et Juliette presents some substantial differences compared to the original source, such as the addition of the character of Stéphano, page of Roméo interpreted en travesti from a female voice, and the scene of Juliette's awakening at the end of the opera, which allows for a final heartbreaking duet with the dying lover. But what stands out most in the general structure of the work is the absolute supremacy of the theme of love on the theme of rivalry between families, which in the Shakespearean source is instead an element of equal importance. As the only engine of the opera, the love between the two young and unfortunate protagonists determines in fact every dramaturgical choice of Gounod, from the highly emotional arias to the four symmetrical duets (one for each act except the third) that make up the backbone of the drama and which, becoming more and more complex from a formal and dramatic point of view, follow the psychological evolution of the two protagonists.

Thanks to Fondazione CR Firenze, the performance of 05/05/2022 is on sale with a 50% discount on tickets for each sector

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