Relive your favorite operas all month long! Cincinnati Opera returns to the airwaves this November with a weekly series of opera broadcasts on 90.9 WGUC, Cincinnati’s classical public radio station. Tune in every Sunday in November at 8:00 PM on 90.9 WGUC or wguc.org.
Gounod’s lush score adds depth and dimension to Shakespeare’s legendary story of star-crossed lovers. Inflamed by youthful passion, Romeo and Juliet are head-over-heels and hell-bent on being together, despite their families’ deep-seated enmity. They seek desperately to protect their love with precarious secrets, but their fates unravel with devastating, deadly consequences. The stellar cast of this 2019 production is led by soprano Nicole Cabell, a “radiant Juliet” (Cincinnati Business Courier), with the “elegant tenor” (Cincinnati Business Courier) Matthew White as her Romeo.
Originally performed in 2019 at Cincinnati Music Hall
Music by Charles Gounod; libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré
Ramón Tebar, conductor; Matthew Ozawa, stage director
Featuring Nicole Cabell, Matthew White, Hadleigh Adams, Piotr Buszewski, Reilly Nelson, Catherine Keen, Kenneth Shaw, and Thomas Dreeze