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Roméo et Juliette (Romeo and Juliet) is an opera
Opera

Opera is an Performing arts in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work which combines a text and a musical score. Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition....
 in five acts by Charles Gounod
Charles Gounod

Charles-Fran?ois Gounod was a French composer, best known for his Ave Maria as well as his operas Faust and Rom?o et Juliette....
 to a French
French language

French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
 libretto by Jules Barbier
Jules Barbier

Paul Jules Barbier was a France poet, writer and opera librettist who often wrote in collaboration with Michel Carr?. He was a noted Parisian bon vivant and man of letters ....
 and Michel Carré
Michel Carré

Michel Carr? was a prolific France librettist.He went to Paris in 1840 intending to become a painter but took up writing instead. He wrote verse and plays before turning to writing libretti....
, based on The Tragedy
Tragedy

Tragedy is a form of The arts based on human suffering that offers its audience pleasure. While most cultures have developed forms that provoke this paradoxical response, tragedy refers to a specific Poetic tradition of drama that has played a unique and important role historically in the self-definition of Western culture....
 of Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet is a Shakespearean tragedy written early in the career of playwright William Shakespeare about two young "Star-crossed" whose untimely deaths ultimately unite their feuding families....
 by William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English people poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist....
. It was first performed at the Théâtre Lyrique
Théâtre Lyrique

Th??tre Lyrique was the name of one of three most famous, but separate, 19th century opera houses in Paris .Originally located among other theatres at Boulevard du Temple , in 1862 it was moved to the Place du Ch?telet on the bank of Seine and renamed as Th??tre-Lyrique Imp?rial....
 (Théâtre-Lyrique Impérial du Châtelet), Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
 on 27 April 1867.








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Roméo et Juliette (Romeo and Juliet) is an opera
Opera

Opera is an Performing arts in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work which combines a text and a musical score. Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition....
 in five acts by Charles Gounod
Charles Gounod

Charles-Fran?ois Gounod was a French composer, best known for his Ave Maria as well as his operas Faust and Rom?o et Juliette....
 to a French
French language

French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
 libretto by Jules Barbier
Jules Barbier

Paul Jules Barbier was a France poet, writer and opera librettist who often wrote in collaboration with Michel Carr?. He was a noted Parisian bon vivant and man of letters ....
 and Michel Carré
Michel Carré

Michel Carr? was a prolific France librettist.He went to Paris in 1840 intending to become a painter but took up writing instead. He wrote verse and plays before turning to writing libretti....
, based on The Tragedy
Tragedy

Tragedy is a form of The arts based on human suffering that offers its audience pleasure. While most cultures have developed forms that provoke this paradoxical response, tragedy refers to a specific Poetic tradition of drama that has played a unique and important role historically in the self-definition of Western culture....
 of Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet is a Shakespearean tragedy written early in the career of playwright William Shakespeare about two young "Star-crossed" whose untimely deaths ultimately unite their feuding families....
 by William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English people poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist....
. It was first performed at the Théâtre Lyrique
Théâtre Lyrique

Th??tre Lyrique was the name of one of three most famous, but separate, 19th century opera houses in Paris .Originally located among other theatres at Boulevard du Temple , in 1862 it was moved to the Place du Ch?telet on the bank of Seine and renamed as Th??tre-Lyrique Imp?rial....
 (Théâtre-Lyrique Impérial du Châtelet), Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
 on 27 April 1867.

Roles

RoleVoice typePremiere Cast, 27 April 1867
(Conductor: Adolphe Deloffre
Adolphe Deloffre

Louis Michel Adolphe Deloffre was a French people violinist and Conducting active in London and Paris, who conducted several important premieres in the latter city, particularly by Gounod and Bizet....
)
Juliettesoprano
Soprano

A soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four part chorale style harmony the soprano takes the highest part which usually encompasses the melody....
Marie Caroline Miolan-Carvalho
Marie Caroline Miolan-Carvalho

Marie Caroline Miolan-Carvalho was a famed French operatic soprano, particularly associated with light lyric and coloratura roles.Born Marie Caroline F?lix-Miolan, she studied first with her father, Fran?ois F?lix-Miolan, an oboist, and later at the Paris Conservatory with Gilbert Duprez....
Roméo, son of Montaigutenor
Tenor

The tenor is a type of male voice type and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between the C one octave below middle C to the A above in choral music, and up to high C in solo work....
Pierre Michot
Frère LaurentbassCazaux
Mercutio, Romeo's friendbaritone
Baritone

Baritone is a type of European classical music male voice type that lies between the bass and tenor voices. It is the most common male voice....
Auguste Barré
Stéphano, Romeo's pagemezzo-soprano,
(Breeches role
Breeches role

A breeches role is a role in which an actress appears in male clothing . In opera it can also refer to any male character that is sung and acted by a female singer....
)		Daram
Count CapuletbassTroy
Tybalt, Lady Capulet's nephewtenorPuget
Gertrude, Juliet's nursemezzo-soprano
Mezzo-soprano

A mezzo-soprano is a type of European classical music female voice type whose range lies between the soprano and the contralto singing voices, usually extending from the A below middle C to the A two octaves above ....
Duclos
The DukebassWartel
Paris, a young countbaritoneLaveissière
Grégorio, Capulet's servantbaritoneTroy jeune
Benvolio, Montague's nephewtenorLaurent
Frère JeanbassNeveu
Male and female retainers and kinsmen of the Houses of Capulet and Montague, maskers


External links

  • (The Metropolitan Opera)
  • showing revisions to the end of act iii and opening of act iv.
  • aria of Juliette (recording by Jana Lady Lou)