Romeo und Julia (Sutermeister opera)
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"Romeo und Julia" redirects here. For the opera by Boris Blacher, see Romeo und Julia (Blacher opera).
Romeo und Julia is an opera in two acts by Heinrich Sutermeister. The composer wrote the libretto, after Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
Erik Levi explains that the opera: "presents a synthesis of Romantic and impressionist elements. It marks a ... return to the conception of opera as a sequence of closed forms, incorporating ... stylistic features related to madrigal, oratorio and pantomime."[1]