Kasarova/Pittas I Capuleti e i Montecchi Romeo-Tybalt duet (Munich 2012)

Описание: Bellini: I Capuleti e I Montecchi
Bayerische Staatsoper, München 19. May 2012

Conductor: Yves Abel
Direction: Vincent Boussard
Sets: Vincent Lemaire
Costume: Christian Lacroix
Light: Guido Levi
Choir: Sören Eckhoff

Romeo: Vesselina Kasarova
Giulietta: Anna Netrebko
Tebaldo: Dimitri Pittas
Capellio: Ante Jerkunica
Lorenzo: Paul Gay

Bayerisches Staatsorchester
Chor der Bayerischen Staatsoper

At this stage in the opera, Juliet has faked her death with help from her tutor Lorenzo and sent him to Romeo with news of this arrangement (which will never reach the doomed Romeo thanks to Capellio's interference). Romeo, fresh from screwing up Tybalt's wedding comes face to face with the devil himself. And what's to do except to kill each other (with gauntlets?) but not before singing a wonderful duet=)

All credits and loads of thanks to the Bavarian State Opera for having streamed this online (wish they had a pay-per-view video bank like the MET) and of course to all the artists involved.

PS If you like this, do check out the 1999 recording    • I Capuleti e i Montecchi Romeo-Tebaldo Due...   uploaded by Arashi110 for a more fiery rendition of this duet by VK with Gregory Kunde at the Avery Fisher Hall.

Full libretto can be accessed at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/evwool/p....