"ROMEO AND JULIET"—New Version
«" LL the world loves a lover" must be the explanation of the way in which famous love affairs are recalled in succeeding centuries by writers and artists-and musicians. There are Paolo and Francesca, Daphnis
and Chloe, Tristan and Isolde, Peleas and Melisande (Maeterlinck in his play, Debussy in his music)-to name only a few. But did you know that the couple best known to romantic history--Romeo and Juliet-were put in opera by at least
two great composers? Shakespeare based his play on an Italian romance by Bandello. Charles Gounod wrote an opera on a libretto by Barbier ard Carré from. Shakespeare, and Tchaikovski chose the same subject. The story made further history when it. was put on the screen with Leslie Howard and Norma Shearer as the ill. starred lovers. Now comes radio’s turn. When the NBS presents "Romeo and Juliet" | at 8.0 p.m. on Sunday, August 11 from 2YA, Wellington, the broadcast should not lack listeners. This is a particularly unusual presentation, possible only through such a medium as radio, in which parts of Shakespeare’s play will be inter- | woven with Gounod’s melody. ,*
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 59, 9 August 1940, Page 11
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