Oper

Charles Gounod

Roméo et

Juliette

Opéra in fünf Akten

Text Michel Carré & Jules Barbier

by William Shakespeare

Sunday 8. September 2024 18:30 – 21:30 One intermission Main Stage
Werkeinführung
30 Minuten vor der Vorstellung
im Gustav Mahler-Saal
Subscription 21

Ticket information

Season 2024/2025

Choose a day of the week and your favorite seats and enjoy five performances in one season.

The following performances are included in this subscription:

08. September 2024: ROMÉO ET JULIETTE
10. November 2024: BILLY BUDD
01. December 2024: BALLET: THE WINTER’S TALE
30. March 2025: COSÌ FAN TUTTE
25. May 2025: TANNHÄUSER


Cast at
8. September 2024

Juliette, Tochter Capulets

Stéphano

Benvolio

Juraj Kuchar

Musikalische Leitung

Inszenierung

Jürgen Flimm

Bühne und Lichtarchitektur

Patrick Woodroffe

Kostüme

Birgit Hutter

Choreographie

Renato Zanella

3 more dates

Roméo et Juliette

Cast at Tuesday 6. May 2025

Juliette, Tochter Capulets

Stéphano

Frère Laurent

Musikalische Leitung

Marc Leroy-Calatayud

Inszenierung

Jürgen Flimm

Bühne und Lichtarchitektur

Patrick Woodroffe

Kostüme

Birgit Hutter

Choreographie

Renato Zanella
Area 1 220 €
Area 1

220 €

Area 2 175 €
Area 2

175 €

Area 3 140 €
Area 3

140 €

Area 4 100 €
Area 4

100 €

Area 5 76 €
Area 5

76 €

Area 6 52 €
Area 6

52 €

Area 7 36 €
Area 7

36 €

Area 8 25 €
Area 8

25 €

Area 9 15 €
Area 9

15 €

Standing room
Standing room

Roméo et Juliette

Cast at Saturday 10. May 2025

Juliette, Tochter Capulets

Stéphano

Frère Laurent

Musikalische Leitung

Marc Leroy-Calatayud

Inszenierung

Jürgen Flimm

Bühne und Lichtarchitektur

Patrick Woodroffe

Kostüme

Birgit Hutter

Choreographie

Renato Zanella
Area 1 232 €
Area 1

232 €

Area 2 190 €
Area 2

190 €

Area 3 153 €
Area 3

153 €

Area 4 108 €
Area 4

108 €

Area 5 86 €
Area 5

86 €

Area 6 62 €
Area 6

62 €

Area 7 39 €
Area 7

39 €

Area 8 29 €
Area 8

29 €

Area 9 16 €
Area 9

16 €

Standing room
Standing room

U27  
Roméo et Juliette

Cast at Tuesday 13. May 2025

Juliette, Tochter Capulets

Stéphano

Frère Laurent

Musikalische Leitung

Marc Leroy-Calatayud

Inszenierung

Jürgen Flimm

Bühne und Lichtarchitektur

Patrick Woodroffe

Kostüme

Birgit Hutter

Choreographie

Renato Zanella
Area 1 220 €
Area 1

220 €

Area 2 175 €
Area 2

175 €

Area 3 140 €
Area 3

140 €

Area 4 100 €
Area 4

100 €

Area 5 76 €
Area 5

76 €

Area 6 52 €
Area 6

52 €

Area 7 36 €
Area 7

36 €

Area 8 25 €
Area 8

25 €

Area 9 15 €
Area 9

15 €

Standing room
Standing room

Included in: Subscription 4
Subscription 4

Season 2024/2025

Choose a day of the week and your favorite seats and enjoy five performances in one season.

The following performances are included in this subscription:

29. October 2024: FIN DE PARTIE
26. November 2024: BALLET: THE WINTER’S TALE
18. Febuary 2025: IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA
15. April 2025: ANDREA CHÉNIER
13. May 2025: ROMÉO ET JULIETTE

About the Production

Short Summary

Roméo Montaigu and Juliette Capulet fall in love at a party.

As the two families are enemies to the core, this love and the wedding that is soon to take place must remain secret. As Juliette is to be married off by her unsuspecting father, she takes a drug that puts her into a death-like sleep. The mock-dead woman is buried in the crypt. Roméo, who believes her to be dead, takes a poison potion at her grave. When Juliette wakes up and sees her dying husband in front of her, she stabs herself.

Roméo et

Juliette

Storyline

Roméo, a member of the Montaigus family, who are enemies of the Capulets, secretly attends a Capulet party in disguise.

There he meets Juliette, the daughter of the house, and falls in love with her. In the garden, under Juliette's balcony, he confesses his love to her, which she reciprocates. They decide to get married. Father Laurent performs the secret wedding ceremony in the hope of reconciling the two families. But shortly afterwards, another quarrel breaks out on the streets of Verona. Juliette's cousin Tybalt challenges Roméo to a fight, which he initially refuses to accept.

But when Tybalt fatally injures Roméo's relative and friend Mercutio, he also takes up arms and stabs Tybalt. He is then banished by the Prince of Verona. Roméo secretly visits Juliette once again to say goodbye to her. The next morning, in the presence of Father Laurent, Capulet announces to his daughter that she must marry Paris. But Father Laurent gives her a sleeping potion, which puts her into a state of suspended animation.

During the wedding celebrations, Juliette collapses and is then buried in the family vault. However, the news that it is only an apparent death does not reach Roméo. Believing Juliette to be dead, he enters the Capulets' tomb and takes poison. Juliette wakes up with the dying Roméo at her side. When she realizes what has happened, she sees herself.

Act 1 - 3 90 min
Intermission 25 min
Act 4 & 5 50 min

For once, deliberately not a stage set, but a light architecture: highly complex, overwhelming and constantly changing. It was no coincidence that the Vienna State Opera chose this path of scenic realization for Gounod's Roméo et Juliette . Gounod's lyrical narrative style of the famous Shakespearean material, his focus on the emotional introspection of the actors, coincided with the idea of a light-supported translation of the score into the visual. In this way, all the feelings depicted in the music and every situational atmospheric change are made tangible in an unusual way.

The composer, who described the work as a drame lyriche, deliberately avoided too many striking mass scenes. The private lives of the protagonists, their personal feelings and the relationships between the characters were important to him. For this reason, the four duets between the two lovers Roméo and Juliette take center stage, around which the rest of the plot is built. Various motifs of memory and love also run through the work like a common thread, acting as a musical bracket that can be heard at key points.

Roméo et Juliette existed in several versions. Why? In the 19th century, every opera house in Paris had strict criteria as to how the work to be performed had to be formally structured. If a work was transferred from one house to another, the composer had to rework it accordingly. This was also the case with Roméo et Juliette. At the Vienna State Opera, the final, traditionally presented version will be performed.

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