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COPYRIGHT 2005 Metropolitan Opera Guild, Inc.
If the test of a true star is the ability to make greatness out of the mediocre, Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazon are stars indeed. Gounod's Romeo et Juliette was once wildly popular, a repertory staple in the world's great opera houses; today, although its music still sounds elegant, lively and pleasingly emotional (if occasionally maudlin), the opera itself has not stood the test of time. Romeo lacks the dramatic compactness, thematic rigor and sustained passion of the best nineteenth-century works....
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