Opera News, February 1st, 2006
Once a staple of the Met's repertory, Gounod's Roméo et Juliette has repeatedly dropped out of sight, only to return in full force. Now that it's back, in a new Guy Joosten production, PETER G. DAVIS takes a look at the opera's recurring appeal.
It a Metropolitan Opera patron of the 1890s had been asked to identify the three most important opera composers of all time, chances are he would have named Giuseppe Verdi, Richard Wagner and Charles François Gounod. That's right Gounod. The Frenchman's reputation may look a trifle faded from our vantage point today, but more than a century ago he w...
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