Music:Vincenzo Bellini Lyrics:Felice Romani,after after Matteo Bandello and Luigi Sceola.
First performance at Teatro La Fenice 11 mars 1830
Capello, the chief of the Capuleti, refuses to agree to a pact through which his daughter Giuletta would marry Romeo of the Montecchi clan, and orders that her marriage to Rebaldo should go ahead immediately. Romeo fails to persuade Giuletta to elope, and so he and his supporters enter the city and disrupt the marriage celebrations.
Giuletta is informed by Lorenzo, the family doctor, that the only way to secure her freedom from Tebaldo is to take a sleeping draught that will give the impression that she is dead. She will be revived in the family vault, where he and Romeo will be waiting. The plan backfires when Lorenzo is arrested. Romeo believes Giuletta to be dead and takes poison but as he lies dying Giuletta wakes up. Hoping to avert the tragedy Lorenzo rushes in but is too late: Romeo and Giuletta are lying dead in each otherīs arms.
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