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''[[I Capuleti e i Montecchi]]'' (The Capulets and the Montagues) is an Italian opera (tragedia lirica) in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini. 

==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 ==

2006: Presented by [[Opera 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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