| “This Romeo et Juliette is a potion for those who don’t like the “modern” way of directing, but who also are not fond of routine. This performance promises to be a bestseller with the Moscow public”. Rossiyskaya Newspaper, December 1, 2014 “While Romeo and Juliette love each other in a very opera-like way <...>, their feuding relatives are engaged in a movie-like battle; they plunge rapiers, ingeniously managing not to make a pig-pile, passionately yell and freeze in impressive poses. Pavel Janchik, a renowned Hollywood master,directed fencing scenes and trained fencers. To make space for his creative work a big fighting scene was added before the overture, and this scene gives a flying start to the performance”. Colta.ru, December 1, 2014 “… a performance may look a very common costume solution and at the same time be an absolutely modern piece. Neither place, nor time, nor the meaning of the characters’ behavior are changed, yet a light note of conceptualism is there.
In the Moscow context, Bernard’s mix of conservatism and conceptualism looks rather impressive and with its lean style works like morning exercises, like training for quality”. Kommersant, December 3, 2014 “In this production Bernard appears also as an artist and as a lighting designer; and this is his good point. A majestic, soaring construction, which looks like a palazzo façade, a tower’s walls and a crypt’s arcs, is well-thought-out and enlivened with details. At the right time light flashes on the hero and at the right moment shade covers him. And as a stage director, Arnaud Bernard had enough taste and mastery to create lyrical scenes ” Vedomosti, December 5, 2014 “The third act fascinates with its beauty, resembling pictures by Breughel, Van Dyck and Rembrandt, who were masters of checkered light and shade, capable of depicting the entire spectrum of human emotions in their paintings. After the wedding and announcement of the wedding with Paris, a giant cross appears on the stage, showing the nothingness of people, and its fall at the moment of Juliette’s fake death is a symbol of predeterminacy. From the sky falls something white – either petals of wedding roses, or snow covering the past, or torn pages from books or scores which tell the love story that enthralls the whole world”. SubKultura, December 5, 2014 “After a long while Moscow has an opera production where love is sung and performed so sincerely.
Romeo et Juliette is not a short story – it lasts three hours and a half with two intermissions! It seems to be a challenge to the modern audience preferring short forms. Nope! Not a single spectator left the theatre without seeing through the saddest opera finale”. Moscow Komsomolets, December 5, 2014 “The wedding scene is very impressive both visually and emotionally. Gentle rose petals fall down from the sky, decorating the land where Paris’s young bride will walk very soon. But the wedding is not destined to occur – Juliette falls down in a dead faint and her father desperately overturns the heavy cross, raising a white cloud of the petals, as if the final breath, the final farewell”. Nezavisimaya Newspaper, December 8, 2014 “We can congratulate the Novaya Opera on an interesting production. <…> With a high level of performing mastery which the Novaya Opera can provide, this production can be called one of the theatre’s best works and will be a success with the public for years and years. ” Operanews, December 8, 2014 “The decent production of Gounod’s Romeo et Juliette staged by Arnaud Bernard offers a number of excellent singing works”. The New Izvestiya, August 19, 2015 | Fight director Pavel Jančík does not yet have an official web site, even though he has worked on many famous films such as Quantum of Solace… Learn more… |
