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DESCRIPTION:Story\nTwo households\, both alike in dignity\,\n In fair Veron
 a\, where we lay our scene\,\n From ancient grudge break to new mutiny\,\n
  Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.\n From forth the fatal loins
  of these two foes\n A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life\;\n Who
 se misadventur'd piteous overthrows\n Do with their death bury their paren
 ts' strife.\n The fearless passage of their death mark'd love\,\n And the 
 continuance of their parents' rage\,\n Which\, but their children's end\, 
 nought could remove\,\n Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage\;\n The
  which if you with patient ears attend\,\n What here shall miss\, our toil
  shall strive to mend.\n William Shakespeae\, Romeo and Juliet - Prologue 
 \nCharles Gounod\nIt was during his stay at the Villa Médicis\, after bei
 ng awarded the famous Prix de Rome for his cantata Fernand\, that Charles 
 Gounod met Malibran's little sister Pauline Viardot\, who was a source of 
 inspiration to many of the greats of her time in the realms of music\, the
  fine arts and literature. She was to play a decisive role in the unfoldin
 g of the young Gounod's career... Profoundly devout\, he had even contempl
 ated the priesthood and spent some months at the Saint-Supplice seminary u
 p until the revolution of February 1848... His compositions until then had
  been mainly religious ones. But... when Pauline Viardot convinced him to 
 write an opera for her... he was not long in succumbing to temptation! Tha
 nks to her relations\, the prima donna found him a librettist and had the 
 new director of the Opéra de Paris agree to stage it... Sapho was present
 ed there in 1851... with Pauline Viardot in the lead role. This endeavour 
 ended in failure\, as did the next... La Nonne sanglante... Gounod's first
  lyrical success did not come along until 1858\, with Molière's Le Médec
 in malgré lui. The libretto here was that of Jules Barbier and Michel Car
 ré\, who were thereafter systematically associated in the works he undert
 ook. Most notable of these was the highly-acclaimed Faust created in 1859 
 at the Théâtre Lyrique. There followed several minor works before Gounod
  again found renewed favour when he presented Mireille five years later. T
 hen\, in 1867\, his greatest success proved to be Roméo et Juliette. A tr
 iumph and the pinnacle of his career! Grand opera style at its very best\,
  with his mastery of the melodious well in the forefront... So too was his
  artistic excellence in expressing the full gamut of intimate and heartfel
 t emotions - and the judicious intermingling of their more sombre and ligh
 ter touches. He went on to complete his lyrical repertoire with only three
  further works... now forgotten.... As of the early 1880s\, Gounod again d
 evoted himself exclusively to religious music.
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SUMMARY:Roméo et Juliette - Opera in concert
URL:http://www.lamonnaie.be/en/opera/245/Romeo-et-Juliette
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