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 ...

Chicago Repertory Ballet will present the world premiere of its original ballet, The Capulets. Set in the fictional universe of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, The Capulets focuses on the fraught ...

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 ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. If you ever wished that Juliet woke just a minute or two earlier and ...

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 ...

Lady Capulet is Capulet's wife. Lady Capulet is quite a timid, unknowing and selfish character, as she appears to be frightened of her husband and does not love her daughter like a mother should. In ...