While it might seem surprising, Vincenzo Bellini's The Capulets and the Montagues is a true rarity: a successful opera based on the celebrated tale of Romeo and Juliet. At first glance, you would ...

Looking disconcertingly like the country-pop singer k.d. lang in her handsome suit and tie, British mezzo soprano Sarah Connolly is a thoroughly convincing and authentically dashing Romeo in City ...

Vincenzo Bellini’s bel canto score calls for a mezzo-soprano — a woman — to sing the role of Romeo. (Superstar mezzo Joyce DiDonato is Romeo in San Francisco Opera’s new production.) Bellini cribbed ...

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The story of the rivalry between the Capulets and the Montagues is familiar to fans of Shakespeare. But a variation on the theme of the secret, doomed love between Romeo and Giulietta is explored in ...