Roméo et Juliette

Charles Gounod Roméo et Juliette opera to libretto by Jules Barbier & Michel Carré. Directed 2008 by Brian Large at the Salzburg Festival. Stars Nino Machaidze, Rolando Villazón, Mikhail Petrenko, Russell Braun, Cora Burggraaf, Falk Struckmann, Juan Francisco Gatell, Susanne Resmark, Christian Van Horn, Mathias Hausmann, Jean-Luc Ballestra, and Robert Murray. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg and the Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor (Chorus Master Jörn H. Andresen). Staged by Bartlett Sher; set design by Michael Yeargan; costumes by Catherine Zuber; lighting by Jennifer Tipton; choreography by Chase Brock; fight scene by B. H. Barry. Released  2009,  disc has 5.0 dts-HD Master Audio sound. Grade: B

The keep case and the booklet both say that Brian Large directed this show. Large, of course, probably has directed more film and TV shooting of fine-art projects than anyone else. But this is the only time I've seen him credited for having a direct artistic hand in a production. Maybe the folks who wrote the blurbs were confused and Bartlett Sher was the overall director of the project. Can anyone clear this up for us?

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