I Capuleti e i Montecchi
I Capuleti e i Montecchi (The Capulets and the Montagues) is an Italian opera (tragedia lirica) in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini.
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The original text
The libretto by Felice Romani was a reworking of the story of Romeo and Juliet for an opera by Nicola Vaccai called Giulietta e Romeo and based on the play of the same name by Luigi Scevola written in 1818, thus an Italian source rather than taken directly from William Shakespeare.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
2019: Presented by Cape Town Opera at the Artscape Opera House in a new production by Steven Stead, Michael Mitchell and Kobus Rossouw. The youthful cast (composed of CTO Young Artists and senior students from the UCT Opera School) included Brittany Smith, Nombulelo Yende, Ané Pretorius and Siphokazi Molteno alternating as the star-crossed lovers, under the baton of Jeremy Silver.
Sources
https://capetownopera.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/AR-Version-10.pdf
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