Anna Netrebko and Piotr Beczala in Roméo et Juliette at the Salzburger Festspiele 2010

Today it has been announced the programme of the Salzburger Festspiele 2010 which runs in Salzburg from 25. July 2010 to 30. August 2010. Piotr Beczala/Stephen Costello and Anna Netrebko/Nino Machaidze sing the title roles of Gounod's Roméo et Juliette. Yannick Nézet-Seguin conducts the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra and Bartlett Sher is the stage director. Nine performances are scheduled on 10., 13., 16., 18., 20., 23., 24., 27. and 30. August 2010. Anna Netrebko together with Piotr Beczala sing in five of them on 10., 13., 16., 20. and 23. August 2010.

Roméo et Juliette
Opera in five acts
Music by Charles Gounod
Text by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré after William Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet

Salzburger Festspiele 2010, Felsenreitschule, Salzburg
10., 13., 16., 18., 20., 23., 24., 27. and 30. August 2010

LEADING TEAM
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Conductor
Bartlett Sher, Stage Director
Michael Yeargan, Set Design
Catherine Zuber, Costume Design
Jennifer Tipton, Lighting
Chase Brock, Choreography
B. H. Barry, Battle scenes
Thomas Lang, Chorus Master

CAST
Anna Netrebko/Nino Machaidze (18., 24., 27., 30. Aug 2010), Juliette
Piotr Beczala/Stephen Costello (18., 24. Aug 2010), Roméo
Mikhail Petrenko/Dimitry Ivashchenko (27., 30. Aug 2010), Frère Laurent
Darren Jeffery, Le Comte Capulet
Russell Braun, Mercutio, friend to Roméo
Cora Burggraaf, Stéphano, page to Roméo
Michael Spyres, Tybalt, nephew of Capulet
Susanne Resmark, Gertrude, nurse to Juliet
David Soar, Le Duc de Vérone
Mathias Hausmann, Le Comte Paris
Robert Murray, Benvolio, nephew of Montaigu
Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra
Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera Chorus

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