Opera reimagining Shakespearean play in Gilded Age New York is beautiful and mostly well-cast, but not much more ...

As Canadian Stage, the Canadian Opera Company and Mirvish Productions all bring Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers back to ...

Charles Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette is given a significant new production from State Opera South Australia, West Australian ...

Charles Gounod took Shakespeare’s tale of the star-crossed lovers and adapted it to create the 1867 opera, Roméo et Juliette, ...

Boston Ballet's new production of "Roméo et Juliette" is unlike any you've seen before, with Juliette taking on a different form of dancing. The tragic love story in this contemporary piece is still ...

To all those theater lovers who never go to the opera, please take note. Vittorio Grigolo in his L.A. Opera debut is delivering an extravagant and yet utterly heartfelt Romeo that recalls the young ...

William Shakespeare’s play “Romeo and Juliet” has a timeless familiarity, with lines such as “Parting is such sweet sorrow” or “Thus, with a kiss, I die.” But when the Bard’s tragic tale of romance is ...

Gounod’s version of Shakespeare’s masterpiece assumes that the audience is familiar with the source material. There are four duets and a pair of arias for the principal couple. The two arias, "Je veux ...

If the past two years seemed like an artistic desert for local opera fans, San Diego Opera’s “Roméo et Juliette” feels like an oasis. The lushly cast production, which opened Saturday at the San Diego ...

You wouldn't call Romeo and Juliet the world's most famous fun-loving couple, but they were among the most inspirational. Their passionate story prompted many other art works — musical ones in ...

March is a fatally romantic month at the San Diego Opera, which kicked off its first performance of Gounod's Romeo et Juliette since 1998. Using the beautiful traditional set and costumes from Utah ...

It was one of those dream happenstances: a night at the opera wondrously sung by all, conducted and directed with exactly the right spirit, staged with high imagination. Yet all this splendor, alas, ...